In 3 minutes, What is Reflection?

Question

Many .Net interview question lists (including the good ones) contain the question: \"What is Reflection?\". I was recently asked to answer this in the context of a 5 questio

Answer 1

Reflection is the CLR's awareness of code-level objects such class names, methods, etc. that is exposed via an API, namely System.Reflection, which allows a developer to leverage the runtime's cognizance of this information in their code.

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