Sep 1, 2008 · What is reflection, and why is it useful? I'm particularly interested in Java, but I assume the principles are the same in any language.

In cases where reflection is used to call a method, it's usual that the method name is itself discovered by another method. Knowing the method name in advance isn't common.

I am trying implement the Data transformation using Reflection 1 example in my code. The GetSourceValue function has a switch comparing various types, but I want to remove these …

In my main method, I'm using reflection and wish to get key value pair of each attribute for each property. So in this example, I'd expect to see "Author" for attribute name and "AuthorName" …

Reflection is costly because of the many checks the runtime must make whenever you make a request for a method that matches a list of parameters. Somewhere deep inside, code exists …

So, what it boils down to is how do I load a given assembly and all of its arbitrary assemblies starting with a filename and resulting in a completely Reflection-browsable tree of types, …

Does creating an object using reflection rather than calling the class constructor result in any significant performance differences?

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36 I'm trying to use the propertyInfo.SetValue() method to set an object property value with reflection, and I'm getting the exception "Object does not match target type". It doesn't really …

Reflection is slow. Private members reflection breaks encapsulation principle and thus exposing your code to the following : Increase complexity of your code because it has to handle the …