Pro C# 10 with .NET 6: Foundational Principles and Practices in Programming

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A. Troelsen, P. JapiksePro C# 10 with .NET 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7869-7_17

17. Type Reflection, Late Binding, Attribute, and Dynamic Types

Andrew Troelsen¹   and Phil Japikse²

(1)

Chambersburg, PA, USA

(2)

West Chester, OH, USA

 

As shown in Chapter 16, assemblies are the basic unit of deployment in the .NET universe. Using the integrated Object Browser of Visual Studio (and numerous other IDEs), you can examine the types within a project’s referenced set of assemblies. Furthermore, external tools such as ildasm.exe allow you to peek into the underlying CIL code, type metadata, and assembly manifest for a given .NET binary. In addition to this design-time ...