Visual Basic® 2012 Unleashed, Second Edition

Chapter 46. Reflection

In This Chapter

• Introducing Reflection

• Understanding Assemblies’ Metadata

• Getting Assembly Information

• Reflecting Types

• Invoking Code Dynamically

• Generating Code at Runtime with Reflection.Emit

• Caller Information

There are situations in which you need to implement logic for performing some tasks depending on user choices. This kind of a situation is not uncommon. The problem is when you cannot predetermine the code required for executing actions depending on user input. Think of code generators: These tools know how to generate code but cannot predetermine which code has to be generated until the users specify their requirements. Also think of assemblies external from your application. In some cases you ...