Invoking Code Dynamically
Reflection also enables executing dynamic code, meaning that you can pick up types defined within an assembly, creating instances and invoking types from Visual Basic code without having a reference to that assembly. For example, imagine you want to load the People.dll assembly and create and populate an instance of the Person
class, as shown in Listing 47.3.
When you have the type instance, you invoke the GetProperty
method to get a reference of the desired property. This ...
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