From Java to C#: A Developer's Guide

Chapter 16. Reflection and dynamic method invocation

Reflection has always been considered an 'advanced' topic in most programming books, probably because you seldom use it unless you are in the business of writing debuggers and introspection tools such as the Javabean Development Kit. I myself would try to avoid using reflection as much as possible if there are alternative ways to do things.

This particular chapter has been written in a very 'dry' style. I have simply included lots of short code examples showing how to perform certain reflection operations using reflection classes in the BCL. The intention is that you can refer back here when there is a need to write reflection codes. Like Java, reflection is largely dependent on the class ...