Question

I am VERY new to ASP.NET. I come from a VB6 / ASP (classic) / SQL Server 2000 background. I am reading a lot about Visual Studio 2008 (have installed it and am poking around). I have read about ‘reflection’ and would like someone to explain, as best as you can to an older developer of the technologies I’ve written above, what exactly Reflection is and why I would use it… I am having trouble getting my head around that. Thanks!

Answer 1

Reflection lets you programmatically load an assembly, get a list of all the types in an assembly, get a list of all the properties and methods in these types, etc.

As an example:

myobject.GetType().GetProperty('MyProperty').SetValue(myobject, 'wicked!', null)