Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Introducing Reflection

Reflection is an important part of the .NET Framework that provides the ability for interrogating assemblies’ metadata and collecting information on types exposed by assemblies. Reflection also enables invoking code from external assemblies and generating code on-the-fly. You can take advantage of Reflection by using objects exposed by the System.Reflection namespace. It can be particularly useful when you need to generate code according to some user input or when you are in late bound scenarios where making decisions on what code must be invoked (or generated) is something determined at runtime. Before putting your hands on code, it is necessary to get an overview of how assemblies are structured so that you can have ...