May 2006
Intermediate to advanced
720 pages
17h 18m
English
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Chapter 11. Reflection Fundamentals
IN THIS CHAPTER
- Introduction to Reflection
- Working with Method Information
- Working with Member Information
- Examining Events
- Creating and Examining Custom Code Attributes
Reflection is a runtime facility that allows you to write code that can interrogate data types at runtime. This means that you can obtain information about the data type of variables. More than that, it means that you can obtain information about class members, properties, methods, fields, constructors, and much more.
This chapter introduces you to the basics of reflection: what it is and how it works. Then, you will see how to use reflection to work with methods, members (fields, properties, and so on), events and more. Finally, you will ...