---
title: "Strongly Typed Reflection Calls in .NET 2.0"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/10/30/strongly-typed-reflection-calls-in-net-20.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/10/30/strongly-typed-reflection-calls-in-net-20.html"
published: "2005-10-30T00:10:00"
updated: "2005-10-30T00:10:00"
tags: [".Net 2.0", ".Net Quotations"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "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…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Strongly Typed Reflection Calls in .NET 2.0

By Roy Osherove October 30, 2005 In [.Net 2.0](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-2-0), [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 30, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

[Oren Eini is trying to cheat Reflection](http://www.ayende.com/Blog/PermaLink,guid,77361179-d764-4a34-a33c-df19add9792b.aspx), 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_](http://www.ayende.com/Blog/ct.ashx?id=77361179-d764-4a34-a33c-df19add9792b&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ayende.com%2fprojects%2frhino-mocks.aspx) _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](http://www.ayende.com/Blog/PermaLink,guid,77361179-d764-4a34-a33c-df19add9792b.aspx).

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