Introduction to Reflection

Advanced C# with .NET

1. Introduction to Desktop Development with .NET

In this section, we will learn what MAUI is, and how to set up a .NET MAUI application. We will also look at the structure of an MAUI application, and in the end, we will learn how to add some basic elements to our UI. This section will prepare us for the rest of the course where we will be working with more practical concepts.

What is .NET MAUI?

Setting up a MAUI Project

Understanding the Structure of a MAUI Project

Understanding XAML and Adding Elements

Task - Adding Elements in a MAUI Application

2. Interactive GUI

In this section we will learn about delegates, events and data binding. Using this knowledge we will learn how to make interesting interactive GUI applications.

Delegates

Task - Defining Delegates

Events

Task - Binding Event Handlers to Events

Custom Events

Task - Creating a Custom Event

Data Binding

Task - Practicing Data Binding

3. Threading

In this section, we will learn what Threading is and how to use it to keep our applications responsive, and run smoothly while performing resource intensive tasks. We will see how to differs from other similar concepts on C# and what are good practices when implementing Threading in our application. There will also be some interesting tasks to help us in understand this concept on a deeper level.

What is Threading?

Creating and Using Threads

Task - Preventing Program Freezes Using Threading

Asynchronous Programming vs Threading

The lock Statement

4. Generics & Reflection

In this section, we will learn how to make more robust methods, classes and other objects which can work multiple types of input data types, by first learning about Generics and how to implement generic classes, then we will move on to Reflection and how to use reflection for further improving the capabilities of our programs.

What are Generics?

Implementing Generic Methods

Task - Implementing a Generic Method

Implementing Generic Classes

Task - Implementing a Generic Class

Introduction to Reflection

Basic Reflection

Task - Reflection

What's Next?

Reflection is a powerful feature of C# which allows the program to interact with types and objects runtime.

Reflection is not a specific kind of a syntax or a method which we use, instead, it is a set of methods and features which can be used to find out useful information of different types at the run time.

For-example, using Reflection, we can

Get a list of all the public properties of a class;
Get a list of all the public methods of a class;
Indirectly invoke methods of an object;
Dynamically create instances of a class;
Get the parent class of any specific type;

The classes that enable us to perform reflection are provided in the System.Reflection namespace. Therefore, we need to import System.Reflection before using reflection in our programs:

One very common part of reflection we use in our programs is the GetType method. This method returns the type of any object.

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