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Assemblies are the building block of any Common Language Runtime (CLR) application. Every type you define, together with its methods, properties and their bytecode, is compiled and packaged inside an Assembly. using System.Reflection; Assembly assembly = this.GetType().Assembly; Assembl...

Using the default constructor T variable = Activator.CreateInstance(typeof(T)); Using parameterized constructor T variable = Activator.CreateInstance(typeof(T), arg1, arg2);

Lets say we have a class Classy that has property Propertua public class Classy { public string Propertua {get; set;} } to set Propertua using reflection: var typeOfClassy = typeof (Classy); var classy = new Classy(); var prop = typeOfClassy.GetProperty("Propertua"); prop.Se...

Attributes can be useful for denoting metadata on enums. Getting the value of this can be slow, so it is important to cache results. private static Dictionary<object, object> attributeCache = new Dictionary<object, object>(); public static T GetAttribute<T, V>(this V va...

public class Equatable { public string field1; public override bool Equals(object obj) { if (ReferenceEquals(null, obj)) return false; if (ReferenceEquals(this, obj)) return true; var type = obj.GetType(); if (GetType() != type) re...