A number of framework classes use it - RegEx for example when you compile the regex it creates a tuned assembly to run the regex; XMLSerialzer creates a class whose sole purpose in life is to serialize, as XML, a particular CLR type. I've seen it used to generate data access code as well [1].

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/autointe2.asp

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Writing compilers comes to mind :-)

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A PropertyGrid uses Reflection to let the user edit contents of an object -
but this doesn't have anything to do with the OP's question,
Reflection.Emit().
Posting one and the same posting eight times doesn't help either :)
OOI, which newsreader do you use?

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The above posters are correct! It can be very, very useful in certain
situations. I'm going to use it to evaulate some user defined formulas
that involve parametric variables in our modeling application. It
couldn't be done easily without Reflection.Emit or the CodeDOM. The
CodeDOM is less attractive because of the overhead of instantiating the
compiler (this would happen multiple times in our case).
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