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.NET interview questions with answers: - What is the difference between Reflection and Dynamic?

• By Shiv Prasad Koirala in .Net
• May 15th, 2013
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• Both reflection and dynamic are used when we want to operate on an object during runtime.

• Reflection is used to inspect meta-data of an object. It also has the ability to invoke members of an object on runtime.
  
  
• Dynamic is a keyword which was introduced in .NET 4.0. It evaluates object calls during runtime. So until the method calls are made compiler is least bothered if those methods / properties etc exist or not.
  
  
• Dynamic uses reflection internally. It caches the method calls made thus improving performance to a certain extent.
  
  
• Reflection can invoke both public and private members of an object while dynamic can only invoke public members.
  
  

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