Sep 1, 2008 · What is reflection, and why is it useful? I'm particularly interested in Java, but I assume the principles are the same in any language.

The main value of reflection would be to write a general purpose object comparer that could take two instances of any kind of object and compare their public fields and properties. This helps avoid …

Is there a way in C# where I can use reflection to set an object property? Ex: MyObject obj = new MyObject(); obj.Name = "Value"; I want to set obj.Name with reflection. Something like: Reflection.

Apr 10, 2009 · Following feedback... To get the value of static properties, pass null as the first argument to GetValue To look at non-public properties, use (for example) GetProperties(BindingFlags.Public | …

I am trying to figure out how you could go about importing and using a .dll at runtime inside a C# application. Using Assembly.LoadFile() I have managed to get my program to load the dll (this part...

May 16, 2025 · // <autogenerated /> using System; using System.Reflection; [assembly: global::System.Runtime.Versioning.TargetFrameworkAttribute(".NETCoreApp,Version=v9.0", …

Apr 20, 2012 · Within "Common", I have a class for common reflection tasks, like creating an instance. If I call GetExecutingAssembly, it gets all the "Common" Types, however when I use …

May 18, 2025 · Reflection is the specific name for how .NET implements introspection. Other languages may call it something different (C++ calls its limited introspection RTTI, for run-time type information).

Sep 3, 2008 · The information you can get back from RTTI isn't enough to do most of the things you'd actually want reflection for though. You can't iterate over the member functions of a class for example.

I'm trying to use the propertyInfo.SetValue() method to set an object property value with reflection, and I'm getting the exception "Object does not match target type".