To be honest, if you don’t know the type at compile time, there isn’t a huge amount of benefit in creating a Delegate. You don’t want to use DynamicInvoke; it will be about as slow as reflection. The main exception to this is when there is a delegate-type lurking in the shadows, for example when subscribing to an event – in which case EventInfo makes this available.
For info, in .NET 3.5 on Expression, there is:
Expression.GetActionType(params Type[] typeArgs);
Expression.GetFuncType(params Type[] typeArgs)
That might help to an extent:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Linq.Expressions;
using System.Reflection;
static class Program {
static void Main() {
DoStuff("Test1");
DoStuff("Test2");
}
static void DoStuff(string methodName) {
MethodInfo method = typeof(Program).GetMethod(methodName);
List<Type> args = new List<Type>(
method.GetParameters().Select(p => p.ParameterType));
Type delegateType;
if (method.ReturnType == typeof(void)) {
delegateType = Expression.GetActionType(args.ToArray());
} else {
args.Add(method.ReturnType);
delegateType = Expression.GetFuncType(args.ToArray());
}
Delegate d = Delegate.CreateDelegate(delegateType, null, method);
Console.WriteLine(d);
}
public static void Test1(int i, DateTime when) { }
public static float Test2(string x) { return 0; }
}