Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Invoking Code Dynamically

Reflection also enables you to execute 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 44.3.

LISTING 44.3 Creating and Running Dynamic Code

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Imports System.ReflectionModule DynamicCode    Sub DynCode()        Dim asm = Assembly.LoadFrom("People.dll")        'Gets the type definition        Dim personType = asm.GetType("People.Person")        'Gets the LastName property definition        Dim lastNameProperty As PropertyInfo ...