[mono-vb] Using reflection to invoke a method written in VB throws an exception

[Dale Ragan]

Any info on this?  I am not sure how the Microsoft Sync Framework
discussion got started on this thread, but please see the first item in
this thread.  I pasted it below for convenience also.

Dale

>
>First a little background, I am currently adding MonoDevelop support to
an >open-source project called SpecFlow[1].  Just a quick intro to
SpecFlow, it >allows us to create behavior driven specification tests
based off a common >user story syntax called Gherkin.  It is very similar
to Cucumber[2] for >Ruby.

>Now for the problem, we have a test case to run external steps from other
>assemblies and one of the assemblies is a VB compiled assembly. 
>MonoDevelop is using the vbnc compiler that I built from svn.  Mono and
>MonoDevelop are built from svn also.  These step methods are invoked
using >reflection.  I have one class and two methods in this VB project
and the >first one executes correctly, but the second one does not.  The
only >difference between the two methods, is that the method that throws
the >exception is decorated with an attribute called When.  The other
method is >decorated with an attribute called Then.  Of course When is a
keyword in >VB, therefore we surround it with [ ].  While invoking,
MonoMethod throws a >System.InvalidProgramException:  Invalid IL code in
>ExternalStepsVB.VBStepDefinitions:step2 (): IL_000f: ret at line 223
during >the call to InternalInvoke which is a pinvoke to a native method.
 When I >translate the method using C# the test passes, so there
shouldn't be >anything wrong with the code.

>I decided to post here, since it is complaining about the IL and also to
>get feedback before submitting a bug report.  You can grab my source[3]
>from github and test the ExternalSteps test yourself with MonoDevelop
using >the NUnitTestRunner to throw the exception that I am seeing.  Let
me know >if you need anything else.

>Thanks,

>Dale

>[1]: http://www.specflow.org/
>[2]: http://cukes.info/
>[3]: http://github.com/sinesignal/SpecFlow

>
> Sorry, I just want to clarify a small typo in my message in this sentence:
> The other method is decorated with an attribute called Then.
>
> It should read:  The other method is decorated with an attribute called
> Given.
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