Reflection, InvokeMethod, and Method 'Example.My.MyApplication.Main' not found.

[dgetz]

We had a ASP.NET 1.1 Windows app that had the code below that I'm now trying to implement in ASP.NET 2.0 Windows app. The problem is that Main is "not found". The idea behind this is that it checks to see if the server has a new version and, if it does, it downloads it to the client computer and updates it. Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong... I get the error at the first Try / Catch at typeContent.InvokeMember. The error message is "Method 'Example.My.MyApplication.Main' not found."

Thanks,
Dan

Imports System.Reflection
Imports System.Security
Imports System.Security.Policy

Public Class Utility

    Friend Shared Sub CheckForNewVersion()
        Dim assemblyContent As System.Reflection.Assembly = Nothing
        Dim strURL As String = "http://www.example.com/example/example.exe"

        Try
            assemblyContent = System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFrom(strURL)

            Dim Version As String
            Version = Replace(assemblyContent.FullName, Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left(assemblyContent.FullName, assemblyContent.FullName.LastIndexOf("Version=")), "")
            Version = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left(Version, Version.LastIndexOf(", Culture="))
            Version = Replace(Version, "Version=", "")

            If My.Application.Info.Version.ToString <> Version Then
                Dim typeContent As System.Type
                typeContent = assemblyContent.EntryPoint.ReflectedType()

                Try
                    typeContent.InvokeMember("Main", BindingFlags.Instance Or BindingFlags.NonPublic Or BindingFlags.Public Or BindingFlags.InvokeMethod Or BindingFlags.Static, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing)
                Catch ex As Exception
                    SetSecurity(assemblyContent.Location.ToString)

                    Try
                        typeContent.InvokeMember("Main", BindingFlags.Instance Or BindingFlags.NonPublic Or BindingFlags.Public Or BindingFlags.InvokeMethod Or BindingFlags.Static, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing)
                    Catch exp As Exception
                        WriteToEventLog("Invoking Main(): " & exp.ToString, EventLogEntryType.Error)

                        'End
                    End Try

                End Try

                Try
                    System.IO.File.Delete(assemblyContent.Location.ToString)
                Catch ex As Exception

                End Try
            End If
        Catch ex As Exception

        End Try
    End Sub

Private Shared Sub SetSecurity(ByVal Location As String)
' Irrelevant code here
End Sub
End Class

 

[cjard]

Can you take a read of http://www.vbdotnetforums.com/misc.php?do=bbcode about CODE tags? ta

 

[dgetz]

Thanks. cleaned that up.