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title: "Great article on Reflection and Performance on MSDN Mag"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/26/great-article-on-reflection-and-performance-on-msdn-mag.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/26/great-article-on-reflection-and-performance-on-msdn-mag.html"
published: "2005-06-26T00:17:00"
updated: "2005-06-26T00:17:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations", "Cool Articles"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Joel Pobar (master of all things dynamic) wrote a great piece on reflection in this month’s MSDN Mag.. Reflection: Dodge Common Performance Pitfalls to Craft Speedy Applications [via Brad Abrams ] Just skimming this…"
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/"
---

# Great article on Reflection and Performance on MSDN Mag

By Roy Osherove June 26, 2005 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations), [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles)

**Historical article** · Originally published June 26, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

[Joel Pobar](http://blogs.msdn.com/joelpob/) (master of all things dynamic) wrote a great piece on reflection in this month’s MSDN Mag..

 [Reflection: Dodge Common Performance Pitfalls to Craft Speedy Applications](http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/07/Reflection/default.aspx)

_\[via_ [_Brad Abrams_](http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2005/06/15/429206.aspx)_\]_

Just skimming this article I can tell you that it is enlightening. I've been doing a lot of work with reflection and there are certainly some great tips in this article, but also on the "WHY"s behind the tips. Also you'll find a discussion of some of what's new in Reflection in .NET 2.0 and how it helps us to achieve our goal of better performance with Reflection (sometimes out-of-the-box!)

Very nice. Very Technical. You'll find this hard to grok without a good understanding of Reflection already, methinks.

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