C# 5.0 Unleashed

Reflection Flashback

When we discussed reflection in Chapter 21, “Reflection,” we focused on two main concepts of the technology: discovery of types and members and invocation or interaction with those (for example, to dynamically invoke a method). While we focused on types and their members, we mostly omitted a discussion of reflection on assemblies. Although you saw how to find types that belong to an assembly (a discovery feature), we didn’t pay much attention to reflection operations targeting assemblies.

Earlier in this chapter, you saw one such assembly-level operation, which had to do with the loading of embedded resources. But there’s more. In fact, we can load assemblies through the reflection APIs, too. So far, you’ve seen that assemblies ...