Reflecting Over a Type Hierarchy
Once you have retrieved a Type
instance you can navigate
the application hierarchy described earlier, accessing the metadata via types
that represent members, modules, assemblies, namespaces, AppDomain
s, and nested
types. You can also inspect the metadata and any custom attributes, create
new instances of the types, and invoke members.
Here is an example that uses reflection to display the members in three different types:
using System; using System.Reflection; class Test { static void Main() { object o = new Object(); DumpTypeInfo(o.GetType()); DumpTypeInfo(typeof(int)); DumpTypeInfo(Type.GetType("System.String")); } static void DumpTypeInfo(Type t) { Console.WriteLine("Type: {0}", t); // Retrieve the list of members in the type MemberInfo[] miarr = t.GetMembers(); // Print out details on each of them foreach (MemberInfo mi in miarr) Console.WriteLine(" {0}={1}", mi.MemberType, mi); } }
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