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Programming in the .NET Environment
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Programming in the .NET Environment

by Damien Watkins, Mark Hammond, Brad Abrams
November 2002
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
11h 16m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Meta-Programming

The ability to dynamically create new types at runtime is known as meta-programming. The CLR provides this capability through Reflection.Emit. Creating dynamic types is a fundamental facility in the remoting services. For example, COM and CORBA can produce code for proxy objects at IDL compile time. This code is then linked with the client and server programs. With the CLR's remoting services, the runtime environment dynamically creates proxy objects whenever the need arises. This approach eliminates the problem of locating and loading the DLL that contains the proxy code at runtime.

Figure 3.7 shows some of the classes involved in providing meta-programming facilities. The diagram is similar to Figure 3.1, which depicts the ...

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