Calling a method on a static class given its type name and method names as strings

Question

How could I go about calling a method on a static class given the class name and the method name, please?

For example:

Given System.Environment

Answer 1

What you are doing here is reflecting on the type named Environment and using the GetPropery and GetGetMethod methods to get the get method of the Environment.CurrentDirectory property like so;

var getMethod = typeof(Environment).GetProperty("CurentDirectory", BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Static).GetGetMethod();
var currentDirectory = (string)getMethod.Invoke(null, null);

Calling the get method of a property returns it's value and is equivilent to;

var value = Environment.CurrentDirectory;