http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ptorr/archive/2012/05/27/loading-winrt-types-via-reflection-in-windows-8.aspxHopefully this will get added to the documentation eventually, but recently I was playing around with some reflection code in Windows 8 Consumer Preview and a few web searches for the &quot;obvious&quot; keywords didn't yield any results, so I thoughten-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ptorr/archive/2012/05/27/loading-winrt-types-via-reflection-in-windows-8.aspx#10311095Mon, 28 May 2012 18:07:38 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10311095Peter Torr - MSFT<p>Andy, I&#39;m afraid I can&#39;t speak about the Windows Store policies, because I don&#39;t know what they will be. Nevertheless I assume that since Reflection is in the Metro-styled subset that you are OK to use it.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10311095" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ptorr/archive/2012/05/27/loading-winrt-types-via-reflection-in-windows-8.aspx#10310966Mon, 28 May 2012 09:37:53 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10310966Andy Wilkinson<p>Hi Peter,</p> <p>Do you have any idea what the Windows Store certification process is going to think of creating types via reflection. I have an app framework (cocoon.codeplex.com) using reflection that passes the current automated tests in the Consumer Preview bits fine - but in the future? and if I were to do reflection into private fields? or are you still okay since you are accessing everything critical via the broker process?</p> <p>Andy</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10310966" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ptorr/archive/2012/05/27/loading-winrt-types-via-reflection-in-windows-8.aspx#10310890Mon, 28 May 2012 02:31:46 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10310890Peter Torr - MSFT<p>What&#39;s this &quot;WP8&quot; you speak of?</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10310890" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ptorr/archive/2012/05/27/loading-winrt-types-via-reflection-in-windows-8.aspx#10310871Mon, 28 May 2012 00:23:08 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10310871OMG!<p>He has returned! &nbsp;Now tell us what we can keep now that WP8 has changed everything all over again.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10310871" width="1" height="1">