Strongly Typed Reflection Calls in .NET 2.0
Historical article · Originally published October 30, 2005; technical details may be outdated.
Oren Eini is trying to cheat Reflection, that is, create his own, "strongly typed" version of reflection, and what he's done so far seems like a very cool and nice workaround:
" I don't like strings and Reflection. In fact, you could say that I hate them with a passion. I hate them because they hide important information from the compiler. This post is actually not a rant, it presents a solution to the problem.
I hate them so much that I wrote my own Mocking Framework that don't use strings at all. .Net has some really great stuff that you can do with Reflection, but it has two big problems.
- It is a performance hit.
- It uses strings. "
Read how he solves this in his blog post.