Damn!

AssemblyName x = thisAssembly.GetName();

triggers:

Request for the permission of type 
'System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission, ...etc'
 failed.

This is going to be fun, trying to get the assembly version without that error (eg: on Silverlight)...

Any ideas?

Somewhere on the net yesterday I read a comment stating that Reflection was not allowed in an Internet zone.
Say what?!?! I use Reflection a lot...

Turns out that whomever made that comment...was...misleading. MSDN's Documentation for ReflectionPermission states:

Controls Reflection of non-public types/members. Controls some features of Emit APIs.

• Without ReflectionPermission, code can use r Read More »
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When invoking a method that has no out params, its relatively easy -- but when it has out or ref methods its very very easy to miss the MakeByRefType method!

Let's first discuss getting a MethodInfo for the easier case (DateTime.Parse), and then the more complex (DateTime.TryParse), next.

These are the parameters we'll use:

Getting Private Fields by Reflection is...almost easy... but it doesn't always work... Here's why.

Reflection is just one of those things that are wonderful about C#... but you do wish it were faster.

That said, here's how to get and set properties via Reflection...

We’re used to requesting the name of the current method by doing something like this:

Type thisClassInstanceType = this.GetType();

Where this doesn’t work, is within a static method, where there is no ‘this’ instance.

In such cases, do the following:

Type thisStaticMethodClassType = 
  System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType;

If you are interested in the method itself, rather than the class that wraps it, its even easier:

string thisMethodName = 
  System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().Name;

Further reading:

• System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod

A quick note about reflection:

http://blog.paranoidferret.com/index.php/2007/09/13/csharp-some-notes-on-invoking/