How to execute a method on a static class using reflection

First, create a method like so:

    /// <summary>
    /// Execute a method on an assembly's static class
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="assemblyNamespace">The namespace of the assembly you would like to invoke</param>
    /// <param name="className">The name of the class in the assembly you would like to invoke</param>
    /// <param name="methodToExecute">The name of the method in the class to invoke</param>
    /// <param name="parameters">array of objects to be passed into the method we're invoking</param>
    /// <returns>object of whatever the method invoked returns</returns>
    public static object ExecuteMethod(string assemblyNamespace, string className, string methodToExecute,
        params object[] parameters)
    {
        Assembly assembly = Assembly.Load(assemblyNamespace);
        Type classType = assembly.GetType(string.Format("{0}.{1}", assemblyNamespace, className));
        MethodInfo methodInfo = classType.GetMethod(methodToExecute);
        return methodInfo.Invoke(null, parameters);
    }

Make sure you add the relevant using:

    using System.Reflection;

Now we need to call the method. The method I want to invoke is in this class:

    namespace Demo.BusinessLogic
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// User manager class to create, read, update and delete users
        /// </summary>
        public static class UserManager
        {
            /// <summary>
            /// Method to retrieve a User
            /// </summary>
            /// <param name="userId"></param>
            /// <returns></returns>
            public static User Read(int userId)
            {
                User user = new User();

                //TODO add code to retrieve user for Id here

                return user;
            }
        }
    }


To call the method and execute Read the user id 12, I'm going to simply do this:

    object returnedObject = ExecuteMethod("Demo.BusinessLogic", "UserManager", "Read", 12);

And returnedObject comes back populated with my user object!