Practical Reflection in .NET

Pluralsight

Course Summary

Reflection is a useful tool for the everyday developer. Here's how.

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Course Description

Reflection is an extremely powerful feature of .NET. But there is a big difference between what we can do and what we should do. We'll take a quick look at what reflection is capable of and then narrow our focus to practical uses: balancing flexibility, safety, and performance.

Course Description

Reflection is an extremely powerful feature of .NET. But there is a big difference between what we can do and what we should do. We'll take a quick look at what reflection is capable of and then narrow our focus to practical uses: balancing flexibility, safety, and performance.

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Course Syllabus

Capabilities and Best Practices
- 49m 27s

—Course Overview 4m 36s
—A Bit About .NET Assemblies 7m 5s
—Features 9m 46s
—Demo: Drawbacks - Speed 8m 7s
—Demo: Drawbacks - Safety 13m 38s
—Best Practices 4m 11s
—Summary 2m 4s

Dynamic Loading with Configuration
- 57m 1s

—Overview 0m 59s
—Dynamic Loading 6m 1s
—Using Reflection 4m 39s
—Demo: Repositories 9m 27s
—Demo: Activating The Activator 16m 28s
—Demo: Dynamic Loading 5m 58s
—Generic Parameters in Types Names 2m 48s
—Demo: Generic Parameters in Type Names 6m 32s
—Maximizing Performance 1m 32s
—Summary 2m 37s

Discovering Types in Assemblies
- 40m 40s

—Overview 1m 6s
—Dynamic Business Rules 4m 21s
—Discovering Types in Assemblies 2m 54s
—Demo: Base Application 8m 7s
—Demo: Building The Rules 12m 5s
—Demo: Type Discovery with Reflection 10m 44s
—Summary 1m 23s

Reflection in Developer Tools
- 31m 15s

—Overview 4m 26s
—Demo: Reflection in Visual Studio 5m 1s
—Demo: Reflection in ILDASM 5m 51s
—Demo: Reflection in JustDecompile 4m 56s
—Demo: Reflection in Moq 4m 52s
—Demo: Reflection in Unity 4m 4s
—Summary 2m 5s

Should I Be Worried?
- 25m 15s

—Overview 1m 11s
—The Scary Bits 0m 48s
—Demo: 'Hacking' .NET Assemblies 2m 16s
—Best Practices 4m 18s
—Obfuscation 3m 33s
—Demo: Obfuscation 5m 15s
—Course Summary 7m 54s