August 2005 - Posts

• MemberInfo Identity, Comparing MemberInfos

  The identity most users would expect MemberInfos (other than Type) to have is not what Reflection provides. So for example most folks would expect the follow program to print true instead of false: public class B { public void M() { } } public class D Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:03 PM by kingces | 2 Comments

• Never use Type.ReflectedType

  Never use MemberInfo.ReflectedType. ReflectedType is not well defined and so logic which depends on it is also not well defined. Using ReflectedType won’t crash your system but chances are that you’ve got a bug in whatever logic is using ReflectedType. Read More... Posted Monday, August 01, 2005 5:46 PM by kingces | 0 Comments