Force calling the base method from outside a derived class

Question

I have two classes:

public class MyBase
{
    public virtual void DoMe()
    {

    }
}

public class MyDerived:MyBase
{
    public override void DoMe()
             


        

Answer 1

There's a solution, but it's ugly: use reflection to get the base-class method, and then emit the IL necessary to call it. Check out this blog post which illustrates how to do this. I've successfully used this approach it to call the base class's implementation of a method when all I have is a reference to a derived class which overrides that method.