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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