Reflection

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Jacky Luk

Dear all,
There is a base class in the .NET framework called Reflection. What exactly
does this class do and is it just specific to CLR? Thanks
Jack
 
Jacky,
There is a base class in the .NET framework called Reflection.
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As far as I know there's no such class, only a namespace called
System.Reflection.

What exactly does this class do
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Reflection lets you discover information about types and type members
and attributes at runtime.

and is it just specific to CLR?
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Java has similar features, and C++ has RTTI (which is much more
limited, but still).



Mattias
 
Jacky said:
Dear all,
There is a base class in the .NET framework called Reflection. What
exactly does this class do and is it just specific to CLR? Thanks
Jack
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It is used to find out information such as properties, methods, events, etc,
in an instance of a class or in a static (shared) class at runtime. So for
instance if your method is passed a parameter, you may wish to determine
all the innards of the object that was passed.
 
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