Reflection

Explains reflection and its main uses.

Describes the reflection-only load context. Shows how to load an assembly, how to test the context, and how to examine attributes applied to an assembly in the reflection-only context.

Describes the internal types, such as RuntimeType, that inherit the abstract classes in the System.Reflection namespace and provide much of their implementation.

Describes the System.Type class and provides code examples that illustrate how to use System.Type with several reflection classes to obtain information about constructors, methods, fields, properties, and events.

Explains how reflection handles the type parameters and type arguments of generic types and generic methods.

Provides a table showing the method naming pattern and use of the most frequently used reflection classes, such as the Module, Type, and MemberInfo classes.

Describes the rules that determine to what degree reflection can be used to discover type information and access types.

Describes the reflection custom-binding interface that supports late binding.

Demonstrates how to use reflection to access default members that a class might have.

Demonstrates how to use reflection to access arguments that have default values, and how to invoke methods that have arguments with default values.

Demonstrates using reflection to query attribute existence and values.

Describes the format of fully qualified type names in terms of the Backus-Naur form (BNF), and the syntax required for specifying special characters, assembly names, pointers, references, and arrays.

Describes where to find information on using unmanaged reflection to examine metadata.

Explains how to create a delegate for a method and hook the delegate up to an event. Explains how to create an event-handling method at run time using DynamicMethod.

The class that represents types in the runtime type system and provides core functionality for reflection.

The namespace that contains other abstractions for code entities, such as the MethodInfo class that represents methods.

The namespace that contains classes for generating dynamic assemblies and dynamic methods.

Explains how to generate dynamic assemblies and dynamic methods.