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MethodBase.Invoke can resolve overrides?
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### Description
The article says
> Note that you cannot use the MethodInfo object from the base class to invoke the overridden method in the derived class, because late binding cannot resolve overrides.
I don't get this behaviour. If I call GetMethod on the type of a base class, and then Invoke with an instance of a derived class that overrides the method, I get the overridden result.
I have to call .MethodHandle.GetFunctionPointer and then Activator.CreateInstance if I want to force a call to the base implementation on a derived instance, as per http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4357729/ddg#14415506
Is the documentation wrong, or have I misunderstood it?
### Page URL
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.reflection.methodbase.invoke?view=net-9.0
### Content source URL
https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-api-docs/blob/main/xml/System.Reflection/MethodBase.xml
### Document Version Independent Id
52226c0f-7dec-ed01-fb7a-4a5250bbff56
### Article author
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