Reflection

Reflection is one of the main features of .Net framework . In short it is a powerful way of collecting and manipulate information present in application's assemblies and its metadata. Metadata contain all the Type information used by the application.(Metadata - Data about data). The ability to obtain information at runtime also makes it even more advantageous. When reflection is used along with system.type, it allows the developer to get the valuable information about all the types and about the assemblies. We can even create the instances and then invoke various types that are used across the application.

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Author: Chikul