16 Reflection, Metadata, and Dynamic Programming
What’s In This Chapter?
- Using custom attributes
- Inspecting the metadata at runtime using reflection
- Building access points from classes that enable reflection
- Understanding the Dynamic Language Runtime
- Working with the dynamic type
- Hosting the DLR ScriptRuntime
- Creating dynamic objects with DynamicObject and ExpandoObject
Wrox.com Code Downloads for This Chapter
The wrox.com code downloads for this chapter are found at www.wrox.com/go/professionalcsharp6 on the Download Code tab. The code for this chapter is divided into the following major examples:
- LookupWhatsNew
- TypeView
- VectorClass
- WhatsNewAttributes
- DLRHost
- Dynamic
- DynamicFileReader
- ErrorExample
Inspecting Code at RunTime and Dynamic Programming
This chapter focuses on custom attributes, reflection, and dynamic programming. Custom attributes are mechanisms that enable you to associate custom metadata with program elements. This metadata is created at compile time and embedded in an assembly. Reflection is a generic term that describes the capability to inspect and manipulate program elements at runtime. For example, reflection allows you to do the following:
- Enumerate the members of a type
- Instantiate a new object
- Execute the members of an object
- Find out information about a type
- Find out information about an assembly
- Inspect the custom attributes applied to a type
- Create and compile a new assembly
This list represents a great deal of functionality and encompasses ...
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