Anand
Answered On : Nov 20th, 2005
Reflection class is used get information,access an manuplate assemblies along with the metadat with it.
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Sameeksha
Answered On : Dec 1st, 2005
Reflection is a collection of classes which allow you to query assembly (classes/objects) metadata at runtime. Using reflection you can also create new types and their instances at runtime and invoke methods on these new type instances.
There are other uses for reflection. Compilers for languages such as JScript use reflection to construct symbol tables.
In .Net the classes in the System.Runtime.Serialization namespace use reflection to access data and to determine which fields to persist. You can use System.Reflection.Emit namespace to dynamically generate types.
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suneetha
Answered On : Dec 31st, 2005
All .net compliers produce metadata, which is packaged along with the module and can be accessed by a mechanism called reflection
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sabir
Answered On : Jan 13th, 2006
system.refelection is namespace used to get name information about the assembly
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reflection is a collection of classs
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Brian
Answered On : Feb 2nd, 2006
Wow most of these answers are not too good except maybe for the first... To describe reflection as a set of classes doesn't explain reflection what so ever.Reflection is a method to identify/manipulate compile-time and runtime code. Reflection is the .Net version of the functionality provided by RTTI (RunTimeTypeIdentification) in old MFC.
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Reflection is the ability to read metadata at runtime. Using reflection, it is possible to uncover the methods, properties, and events of a type, and to invoke them dynamically. Reflection also allows us to create new types at runtime.
Reflection generally begins with a call to a method present on every object in the .NET framework: GetType. The GetType method is a member of the System.Object class, and the method returns an instance of System.Type. System.Type is the primary gateway to metadata. System.Type is actually derived from another important class for reflection: the MemeberInfo class from the System.Reflection namespace. MemberInfo is a base class for many other classes who describe the properties and methods of an object, including FieldInfo, MethodInfo, ConstructorInfo, ParameterInfo, and EventInfo among others. As you might suspect from thier names, you can use these classes to inspect different aspects of an object at runtime.
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Reflection is the ability to view and analyse the metadata of a component at runtime
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Reflection is the feature of C# that enables you to obtain the information about a type.
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kartik bhatt
Answered On : May 11th, 2012
reflection is the bending of light
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