Object of type 'customObject' cannot be converted to type 'customObject'.

Posted by Phani Kumar PV on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Phani Kumar PV
Published on 2010-04-12T13:22:46Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 13:53 UTC
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i am receiving the follwing error when i am invoking a custom object "Object of type 'customObject' cannot be converted to type 'customObject'."

Following is the scenario when i am getting the error

i am invoking a method in a dll dynamically.

Load an assembly

CreateInstance....

calling MethodInfo.Invoke() passing int, string as a parameter for my method is working fine => No exceptions are thrown.

But if I try and pass a one of my own custom class objects as a parameter, then I get an ArgumentException exception, and it is not either an ArgumentOutOfRangeException or ArgumentNullException.

"Object of type 'customObject' cannot be converted to type 'customObject'."

I am doing this in a web application.

The class file containing the method is in a different proj . also the custom object is a sepearte class in the same file.

there is no such thing called a static aseembly in my code. I am trying to invoke a webmethod dynamically. this webmethod is having the customObject type as an input parameter. So when i invoke the webmethod i am dynamically creating the proxy assembly and all. From the same assembly i am trying to create an instance of the cusotm object assinging the values to its properties and then passing this object as a parameter and invoking the method. everything is dynamic and nothing is created static.. :(

add reference is not used. Following is a sample code i tried to create it

public static object CallWebService(string webServiceAsmxUrl, string serviceName, string methodName, object[] args) 
    { 
        System.Net.WebClient client = new System.Net.WebClient(); 
        //-Connect To the web service 
        using (System.IO.Stream stream = client.OpenRead(webServiceAsmxUrl + "?wsdl")) 
        { 
            //--Now read the WSDL file describing a service. 
            ServiceDescription description = ServiceDescription.Read(stream); 
            ///// LOAD THE DOM ///////// 
            //--Initialize a service description importer. 
            ServiceDescriptionImporter importer = new ServiceDescriptionImporter(); 
            importer.ProtocolName = "Soap12"; // Use SOAP 1.2. 
            importer.AddServiceDescription(description, null, null); 
            //--Generate a proxy client. importer.Style = ServiceDescriptionImportStyle.Client; 
            //--Generate properties to represent primitive values. 
            importer.CodeGenerationOptions = System.Xml.Serialization.CodeGenerationOptions.GenerateProperties; 
            //--Initialize a Code-DOM tree into which we will import the service. 
            CodeNamespace nmspace = new CodeNamespace(); 
            CodeCompileUnit unit1 = new CodeCompileUnit(); 
            unit1.Namespaces.Add(nmspace); 
            //--Import the service into the Code-DOM tree. This creates proxy code 
            //--that uses the service. 
            ServiceDescriptionImportWarnings warning = importer.Import(nmspace, unit1); 
            if (warning == 0) //--If zero then we are good to go 
            { 
                //--Generate the proxy code  
                CodeDomProvider provider1 = CodeDomProvider.CreateProvider("CSharp"); 
                //--Compile the assembly proxy with the appropriate references 
                string[] assemblyReferences = new string[5] { "System.dll", "System.Web.Services.dll", "System.Web.dll", "System.Xml.dll", "System.Data.dll" }; 
                CompilerParameters parms = new CompilerParameters(assemblyReferences); 
                CompilerResults results = provider1.CompileAssemblyFromDom(parms, unit1); 
                //-Check For Errors 
                if (results.Errors.Count > 0) 
                { 
                    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); 
                    foreach (CompilerError oops in results.Errors) 
                    { 
                        sb.AppendLine("========Compiler error============"); 
                        sb.AppendLine(oops.ErrorText); 
                    } 
                    throw new System.ApplicationException("Compile Error Occured calling webservice. " + sb.ToString()); 
                } 
                //--Finally, Invoke the web service method  
                Type foundType = null; 
                Type[] types = results.CompiledAssembly.GetTypes(); 
                foreach (Type type in types) 
                { 
                    if (type.BaseType == typeof(System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol)) 
                    { 
                        Console.WriteLine(type.ToString()); 
                        foundType = type; 
                    } 
                } 

                object wsvcClass = results.CompiledAssembly.CreateInstance(foundType.ToString()); 
                MethodInfo mi = wsvcClass.GetType().GetMethod(methodName); 
                return mi.Invoke(wsvcClass, args); 
            } 
            else 
            { 
                return null; 
            } 
        } 
    } 

I cant find anything static being done by me.

any help is greatly appreciated.

Regards, Phani Kumar PV

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