What is Reflection?

It extends the benefits of metadata by allowing developers to inspect and use it at runtime. For example, dynamically determine all the classes contained in a given assembly and invoke their methods.
Reflection provides objects that encapsulate assemblies, modules, and types. You can use reflection to dynamically create an instance of a type, bind the type to an existing object, or get the type from an existing object. You can then invoke the type's methods or access its fields and properties.
Namespace: System.Reflection
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samiksc

  • Jan 16th, 2006
 

Reflection is a namespace in .net which allows you to access metadata for loaded types and objects.

It also allows you to create new types and their objects at runtime.

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sanjay Kumar Das

  • Mar 2nd, 2006
 

Reflection is the mechanism of discovering class information at run time or it is an

technique for reading meta data at run time

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