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What is reflection, and what are its risks?

Expert C#
Quick Answer Reflection lets you inspect types, methods, and properties at runtime and invoke them dynamically. The risks: it is significantly slower than direct calls, it bypasses compile-time type safety, it can expose private members, and it makes code harder to refactor and analyze statically.

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Reflection enables runtime inspection and invocation of types but is slower, bypasses compile-time type checks, exposes internals, and increases security risks.

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