Matt Sgarlata wrote:
Does this mean .NET doesn't have reflection? That's such a killer feature of Java; I can't believe they wouldn't have ported it to .NET. Any .NET developers out there that can tell us how .NET deals with reflection when you have multiple versions of the same class?
Since the class name alone is insufficient to fully identify a specific version of a class, to my knowledge there is no equivalent to Class.forName(String classname) in .NET. Instead, .NET has the Assembly class. An Assembly is roughly akin to a java jar file, and is typically a single DLL that contains one or more classes. Assembly has a non-static getType(String typeName) method, that performs the same job as the static Class.forName(String classname) method in java, but for a specific Assembly instance. There is never any ambiguity over which version of the named Type that is returned, since an Assembly can only contain one version of any given class. Support for multiple versions of a class at runtime is achieved by storing those multiple class versions in separate Assemblies.
Chris
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