Jun 23, 2010 · Reflection is the ability of types to provide information about themselves. For example, an assembly can tell you what it contains, a type can tell you its methods, properties and so on.

Aug 30, 2009 · Reflection isn't supported in any existing at the moment C-standards. But still it's possible to get something very similar to this feature in Linux/MacOS/Windows if gcc/clang is used: as several …

Jan 7, 2015 · Reflection is a side-effect of the way .net is built and that Microsoft elected to expose the libraries they used to create Visual Studio and the .net run-time to developers outside of Microsoft. …

The main value of reflection would be to write a general purpose object comparer that could take two instances of any kind of object and compare their public fields and properties. This helps avoid …

Oct 3, 2015 · I want to dynamically create TaskA or TaskB using C# reflection (Activator.CreateInstance). However I wouldn't know the type before hand, so I need to dynamically …

Sep 1, 2008 · What is reflection, and why is it useful? I'm particularly interested in Java, but I assume the principles are the same in any language.

Mar 11, 2011 · The overhead of using reflection can impede a more than 400-fold penalty: that slows down even a moderate amount of calls. The resolution is relatively easy: instead of using …

Is there a way in C# where I can use reflection to set an object property? Ex: MyObject obj = new MyObject(); obj.Name = "Value"; I want to set obj.Name with reflection. Something like: Reflection.

Apr 10, 2009 · Following feedback... To get the value of static properties, pass null as the first argument to GetValue To look at non-public properties, use (for example) GetProperties(BindingFlags.Public | …

Reflection is mostly used in connecting loosely-coupled components, i.e. in looking up concrete classes and methods, where only interfaces are known: dependeny-injection frameworks, instantiating JDBC …