March 2002
Intermediate to advanced
864 pages
31h 8m
English
The .NET runtime depends heavily on the existence of metadata and the ability to inspect and manipulate it dynamically. The FCL exposes this via a set of abstract classes that mirror the significant elements of an application (assemblies, modules, types, and members) and provide support for creating instances of FCL types and new types on the fly (see Chapter 13).
For more information, see the following namespaces:
System.Reflection System.Reflection.Emit
Important related types in other namespaces include System.Type, System.Activator and System.AppDomain.