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.
The main value of Reflection is that it can be used to inspect assemblies, types, and members. It's a very powerful tool for determining the contents of an unknown assembly or object and can be used in a wide variety of cases. Opponents of Reflection will cite that it is slow, which is true when compared to static code execution--however Reflection is used throughout the .NET framework, and ...
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.
Reflection is costly because of the many checks the runtime must make whenever you make a request for a method that matches a list of parameters. Somewhere deep inside, code exists that loops over all methods for a type, verifies its visibility, checks the return type and also checks the type of each and every parameter.
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 create TaskA based on string like "namespace.TaskA" or "namespace.TaskAB".
In my main method, I'm using reflection and wish to get key value pair of each attribute for each property. So in this example, I'd expect to see "Author" for attribute name and "AuthorName" for the attribute value.
The information you can get back from RTTI isn't enough to do most of the things you'd actually want reflection for though. You can't iterate over the member functions of a class for example.
Reflection is the specific name for how .NET implements introspection. Other languages may call it something different (C++ calls its limited introspection RTTI, for run-time type information).
I have a class with a private static final field that, unfortunately, I need to change it at run-time. Using reflection I get this error: java.lang.IllegalAccessException: Can not set static final
