.NET Development Foundation/Interoperability Topics

Interoperability, Reflection, and Mailing: Topics Topics Interoperability Reflection Reflection (computer science) The Wikipedia definition for reflection in computer science is: "The process by which a computer program can observe and modify its own structure and behavior. The programming paradigm driven by reflection is called reflective programming". The concept is implemented extensively in .NET because a lot of information is maintained at the common intermediate language (CIL) level. Among other things you can: get information about running assembly or assembly constituents (modules, classes, methods, etc.), this is particularly useful for dynamically loaded assemblies that are not known at compile time. put custom attributes in your code and retrieve those attributes at run time. dynamically invoke methods. "emit" and execute CIL code at run time. Mailing