Question

If i have a private class

Class A
{
    public static string foo;
}

Can i use reflection to access that static field? Assuming of course i cannot change the code…

The problem i have is that the Class is defined in a different Namespace than i am in.

lets say I am in the Test namespace, and i have a reference to a DLL with the FOO namespace.

   namespace FOO
   {
     Class A
     {
         public static string bar;
     }
   }

I want to access the bar field in the class A from namespace TEST.

Answer 1

Yes, you can. You’ll need to get the Type – how you do that will depend on the exact nature of your app; Assembly.GetType(string) would be one option, for example. After that, you get the FieldInfo with Type.GetField and then ask the field for its value, using null as the target as it’s a static field.