C# Language Tutorial => Reflection

Introduction

Reflection is a C# language mechanism for accessing dynamic object properties on runtime. Typically, reflection is used to fetch the information about dynamic object type and object attribute values. In REST application, for example, reflection could be used to iterate through serialized response object.

Remark: According to MS guidelines performance critical code should avoid reflection. See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff647790.aspx

Remarks

Reflection allows code to access information about the assemblies, modules and types at run-time (program execution). This can then be further used to dynamically create, modify or access types. Types include properties, methods, fields and attributes.

Further Reading :

Reflection(C#)

Reflection in .Net Framework