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Reflection - Changing a method visibility

Hi,

I've got a MethodInfo object and I'm wanting to change that method (using reflection) from public to private. Possible?

Thanks,
Uni

TheMozz

Are you writing an assembly at run time, or what? What would the purpose/reason be? Just trying to understand the why before giving best answer on how.

Unimatrix_001

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Hello!

Well, I'm playing around with some ideas for copy protection, also I wouldn't mind learning a little more about reflection as all the vast majority of stuff seems to be just pulling data and calling an existing method... nothing too exciting if you ask me.

Thanks,
Uni

Fernando Soto

Hi Unimatrix_001;

If you take a look at the MethodInfo class you will see that all its propertiesare Get's and non are Set's properties. So there is no way that I know to do this, sorry.

MethodInfo Class
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.reflection.methodinfo.aspx

Fernando

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Unimatrix_001

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Oh boy... Things just got difficult...

Fernando Soto

The Reflection.Emit permits you create at run time code it does not permit you to change the scope of a existing method from private to public.

TheMozz

LOL! We looked into that for the same reasons a while back, but ran out of time :( It has a lot of potention for use when installing programs, you could emit certain assemblies for things. But like you said, it gets difficult fast! Thanks!

Unimatrix_001

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The Reflection.Emit permits you create at run time code it does not permit you to change the scope of a existing method from private to public.

It does seem though as code could be copied and edited before being ran in a new assembly...