What is .Net Reflection
Reflection ?

In .Net, during the compile time Metadata created with MSIL and stored it in a file called a Manifest . Both Metadata and Microsoft Intermediate Language together wrapped in a Portable Executable (PE) file and this can be accessed at runtime by a mechanism, called Reflection.
At runtime, the Reflection mechanism uses the Portable Executable file to read information about the assembly and it is possible to uncover the methods, properties, and events of a type, and to invoke them dynamically. Reflection generally begins with a call to a method present on every object in the .NET framework, GetType(). The GetType() is a member of the System.Object class, and the method returns an instance of System.Type.
The classes in the System.Reflection namespace, together with Type, enable you to get information about loaded assemblies and the types defined within them, such as classes, interfaces, and value types.
The following program demonstrate a sample code where we are accessing at run time through methods and function of a Class "testClass".
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