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Asked: May 23, 20262026-05-23T13:17:20+00:00 2026-05-23T13:17:20+00:00

I need to be able to determine if a given method or property comes

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I need to be able to determine if a given method or property comes from a particular interface and is explicitly implemented.
Has anyone done this and is it actually possible to get this information by the means of .NET reflection?


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As can be seen in comments below the accepted answer, the actual thing I am trying to accomplish is to call the method that implements a particular interface via reflection. Since the possibility to have multiple interfaces with the same method signature, I wanted to determine the right implementation to invoke based on the interface. In my scenario, the implementation type, interface and method name are determined at runtime, so I cannot use simple casting
in my case.

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    2026-05-23T13:17:21+00:00Added an answer on May 23, 2026 at 1:17 pm

    Explicitly implemented interface methods in C# are private in the target class. You can use this fact and create this extension method to return only these methods:

    static IEnumerable<MethodInfo> GetExplicitlyImplementedMethods(this Type targetType, 
        Type interfaceType) 
    { 
      return targetType.GetInterfaceMap(interfaceType).TargetMethods.Where(m => m.IsPrivate);
    }
    

    Note: this is for C# only.

    UPDATE: But, from your requirements, it seems that you only want to know which methods implement which interface methods, without really caring about whether the implementation is implicit or explicit. For a solution that works across languages then, this would suffice:

    static IEnumerable<MethodInfo> GetImplementedMethods(this Type targetType,
        Type interfaceType) 
    { 
      return targetType.GetInterfaceMap(interfaceType).TargetMethods;
    }
    
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