15.12. Putting Reflection, Late Binding, and Custom Attributes in Perspective
Even though you have seen numerous examples of these techniques in action, you may still be wondering when to make use of reflection, dynamic loading, late binding, and custom attributes in your programs? To be sure, these topics can seem a bit on the academic side of programming (which may or may not be a bad thing, depending on your point of view). To help map these topics to a real-world situation, you need a solid example. Assume for the moment that you are on a programming team that is building an application with the following requirement:
The product must be extendable by the use of additional third-party tools.
What exactly is meant by extendable? Well, consider ...
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