System.Reflection.Metadata Namespace
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Provides low-level functionality for reading assembly metadata according to ECMA-335. This namespace is designed to be used by compilers and other tools that need to read assembly metadata.
Classes
| AssemblyExtensions | |
| AssemblyNameInfo |
Describes an assembly. |
| BlobBuilder | |
| DebugMetadataHeader | |
| HandleComparer | |
| ILOpCodeExtensions | |
| ImageFormatLimitationException |
The exception that is thrown when an attempt to write metadata exceeds a limit given by the format specification. For example, when the heap size limit is exceeded. |
| MetadataReader |
Reads metadata as defined by the ECMA 335 CLI specification. |
| MetadataReaderProvider |
Provides a MetadataReader for metadata stored in an array of bytes, a memory block, or a stream. |
| MetadataStringDecoder |
Provides the MetadataReader with a custom mechanism for decoding byte sequences in metadata that represent text. |
| MetadataUpdateHandlerAttribute |
Indicates that a type that should receive notifications of metadata updates. |
| MetadataUpdater | |
| MethodBodyBlock |
Represents the method body in ECMA 335 assembly. |
| PEReaderExtensions | |
| TypeName | |
| TypeNameParseOptions | |
Structs
Interfaces
Enums
| ConstantTypeCode |
Specifies values that represent types of metadata constants. |
| CustomAttributeNamedArgumentKind |
Specifies constants that define the kinds of arguments in a custom attribute signature. |
| ExceptionRegionKind | |
| HandleKind | |
| ILOpCode | |
| ImportDefinitionKind | |
| LocalVariableAttributes | |
| MemberReferenceKind |
Specifies constants that indicate whether a MemberReference references a method or field. |
| MetadataKind | |
| MetadataReaderOptions | |
| MetadataStreamOptions | |
| PrimitiveSerializationTypeCode |
Specifies constants that define the type codes used to encode types of primitive values in a CustomAttribute value blob. |
| PrimitiveTypeCode |
Specifies constants that define primitive types found in metadata signatures. |
| SerializationTypeCode |
Specifies type codes used to encode the types of values in a CustomAttributeValue<TType> blob. |
| SignatureAttributes |
Specifies additional flags that can be applied to method signatures. The underlying values of the fields in this type correspond to the representation in the leading signature byte represented by a SignatureHeader structure. |
| SignatureCallingConvention |
Specifies how arguments in a given signature are passed from the caller to the callee. The underlying values of the fields in this type correspond to the representation in the leading signature byte represented by a SignatureHeader structure. |
| SignatureKind |
Specifies the signature kind. The underlying values of the fields in this type correspond to the representation in the leading signature byte represented by a SignatureHeader structure. |
| SignatureTypeCode |
Specifies constants that define type codes used in signature encoding. |
| SignatureTypeKind |
Indicates the type definition of the signature. |
| StandaloneSignatureKind |
Indicates whether a StandaloneSignature represents a standalone method or local variable signature. |
Remarks
This namespace contains the following core classes:
- The MetadataReader class, which is used to read an assembly.
