C# 7 and .NET: Designing Modern Cross-platform Applications

Reading assembly metadata

Add a new console application project named WorkingWithReflection.

At the top of the file, import the following types and namespaces:

using static System.Console;
using System;
using System.Reflection;

In the Main method, enter statements to get the console apps assembly, output its name and location, and get all assembly-level attributes and output their types, as shown in the following code:

WriteLine("Assembly metadata:");Assembly assembly = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly();WriteLine($" Full name: {assembly.FullName}");WriteLine($" Location: {assembly.Location}");var attributes = assembly.GetCustomAttributes();WriteLine($" Attributes:");foreach (Attribute a in attributes){   WriteLine($" {a.GetType()}");}

Run the console ...