Jun 23, 2010 · 6 Reflection is the ability of types to provide information about themselves. For example, an assembly can tell you what it contains, a type can tell you its methods, properties …

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: …

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.

Oct 3, 2015 · I want to dynamically create TaskA or TaskB using C# reflection (Activator.CreateInstance). However I wouldn't know the type before hand, so I need to …

Reflection is costly because of the many checks the runtime must make whenever you make a request for a method that matches a list of parameters. Somewhere deep inside, code exists …

In my main method, I'm using reflection and wish to get key value pair of each attribute for each property. So in this example, I'd expect to see "Author" for attribute name and "AuthorName" …

Jul 21, 2010 · I have a class with a private static final field that, unfortunately, I need to change it at run-time. Using reflection I get this error: java.lang.IllegalAccessException: Can not set …

Aug 30, 2009 · Reflection as analysis is generally very weak; usually it can only provide access to function and field names. This weakness comes from the language implementers essentially …

Dec 13, 2009 · Using reflection you can take this string and create an instance of the object requested. If that object implements a known interface, then you can use it through ordinary …

I am trying to invoke a method via reflection with parameters and I get: object does not match target type If I invoke a method without parameters, it works fine. Based on the following code …