RE-Decoded

A technical look at the Raiser's Edge API from Blackbaud


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Reflecting on the Meta world

March 14th, 2008 by David Zeidman

One aspect of the API that is really well thought out is the whole Meta data structure. Back when RE7 was written, there was no reflection built into VB6. Java had it and there was some libraries that could do it but nothing was built in. Reflection (in coding terminology) is the ability to be aware of the classes and methods that are available to the code during run time.

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