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Learn C# in 7 days

You're reading from   Learn C# in 7 days Get up and running with C# 7 with async main, tuples, pattern matching, LINQ, regex, indexers, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787287044
Length 306 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Day 01 - Overview of the .NET Framework FREE CHAPTER 2. Day 02 - Getting Started with C# 3. Day 03 - What's New in C# 4. Day 04 - Discussing C# Class Members 5. Day 05 - Overview of Reflection and Collections 6. Day 06 - Deep Dive with Advanced Concepts 7. Day 07 - Understanding Object-Oriented Programming with C# 8. Day 08 - Test Your Skills – Build a Real-World Application

What is reflection?

In simple terms, reflection is a way to get inside of a program, gathering the object information of a program/code and/or invoking these at runtime. So, with the help of reflection, we can analyze and assess our code by writing code in C#. To understand reflection in detail, let's take the example of the class OddEven. Here is the partial code of this class:

public class OddEven
{
public string PrintOddEven(int startNumber, int
lastNumber)
{
return GetOddEvenWithinRange(startNumber,
lastNumber);
}
public string PrintSingleOddEven(int number) => CheckSingleNumberOddEvenPrimeResult(number);
private string CheckSingleNumberOddEvenPrimeResult(int
number)
{
var result = string.Empty;
result = CheckSingleNumberOddEvenPrimeResult(result,
number);
return result;
}
//Rest code is omitted
}

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