Essential C# 2.0

Chapter 14. Reflection and Attributes Attributes are a means of inserting additional metadata into an assembly and associating the metadata with a programming construct such as a class, method, or property. This chapter investigates the deta...

Reflection Using reflection, it is possible to do the following. Access the metadata for types within an assembly. This includes constructs such as the full type name, member names, and any attributes decorating a construct.Dynamically invoke a...

Attributes Before delving into details on how to program attributes, you should consider a use case that demonstrates its utility. In the CommandLineHandler example in Listing 14.3, you dynamically set a class's properties based on the command-lin...

Summary This chapter discussed how to use reflection to read the metadata that is compiled into the CIL. Using reflection, you saw how to provide a late binding in which the code to call is defined at execution time rather than at compile time. Al...