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Invoking Methods with No Parameters

Assume you wish to invoke the TurboBoost() method of the MiniVan. As you recall, this method will

set the state of the engine to “dead” and display an informational message box. The first step is to

obtain a MethodInfo type for the TurboBoost() method using Type.GetMethod(). From the resulting

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MethodInfo, you are then able to call MiniVan.TurboBoost using Invoke(). MethodInfo.Invoke()

requires you to send in all parameters that are to be given to the method represented by MethodInfo.

These parameters are represented by an array of System.Object types (as the parameters for a given

method could be any number of various entities).

Given that TurboBoost() does not require any parameters, you can simply pass null (meaning

“this method has no parameters”). Update your Main() method as follows:

static void Main(string[] args)

{

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