What is Mean by Reflection in c#.net?

Attributes are used to assign meta data to object in .net

and reflections are used to access or retrieve this data

Hi.

Reflection is the ability to find out information about objects, the application details (assemblies), its metadata at run-time.this class is available under the namespace System.Reflection.

Whenever we compile a programme under framework architecture we get assembly in form of exe or dll(which contains the IL & Metadata). Within the Metadat all the information about the class is retained like :-

private & public key

assembly version

structure information

type info

we can get all these information through reflection at runtime. Reflection also demonstrate the example of late binding.

Thanks.