Reflection in C# is a powerful feature that allows a program to inspect and manipulate its own metadata at runtime. It provides a way to dynamically access information about types, methods, fields, and properties, and even create new types or invoke methods at runtime[1][2][3].
The key aspects of C# reflection are:
It uses the System.Reflection namespace which contains classes like Assembly, Type, MethodInfo, FieldInfo, PropertyInfo, etc. to access metadata[1][2][3]
The Type class is the primary way to access metadata. It provides methods and properties to get information about a type declaration[3]
Reflection allows creating new types and executing actions using those types at runtime[1]
It enables late binding to methods and properties[1]
Attribute information can be accessed at runtime using reflection[1]
Some common use cases of reflection in C# include:
Inspecting and instantiating types in an assembly at runtime[4][5]
Invoking methods and accessing fields and properties dy...
