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ReflectionHelper

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This class makes getting MemberInfos easy, without the use of magic strings (so it is refactoring friendly) and also allows you to create delegates to do fast accesses to those items, much faster than the normal Invoke, GetValue or SetValue methods.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Reflection.Emit;
using Pfz.Collections;
using Pfz.DynamicObjects.Internal;
using Pfz.Extensions;
using Pfz.Threading;

namespace Pfz.DynamicObjects
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Class used to implement any delegate and call a proxy object to process the invokes.
	/// </summary>
	public static class DelegateProxier
	{
		#region Pair - Nested Class
			private sealed class Pair
			{
				public FastDynamicDelegate Constructor;
				public MethodInfo Method;
			}
		#endregion

		#region Fields
			private static readonly Dictionary<ImmutableArray<Type>, Pair> _implementations = new Dictionary<ImmutableArray<Type>, Pair>();
			private static YieldReaderWriterLockSlim _implementationsLock;

			private static readonly MethodInfo _invokeMethod = typeof(IProxyDelegate).GetMethod("Invoke");
			private static readonly Type[] _proxyTypes = new Type[]{typeof(IProxyDelegate)};
		#endregion

		#region Proxy
			/// <summary>
			/// Implementes a delegate and calls the given proxy.
			/// </summary>
			public static Delegate Proxy(IProxyDelegate delegateProxy, Type delegateType)
			{
				if (delegateProxy == null)
					throw new ArgumentNullException("delegateProxy");

				if (delegateType == null)
					throw new ArgumentNullException("delegateType");

				if (!delegateType.IsSubclassOf(typeof(Delegate)))
					throw new ArgumentException("delegateType must be a delegate.", "delegateType");

				var sourceInvoke = delegateType.GetMethod("Invoke");
				var returnType = sourceInvoke.ReturnType;

				List<Type> parameterTypes = new List<Type>();
				parameterTypes.Add(returnType);
				var parameters = sourceInvoke.GetParameters();
				int parameterCount = parameters.Length;
				foreach(var parameter in parameters)
					parameterTypes.Add(parameter.ParameterType);

				var immutableArray = new ImmutableArray<Type>(parameterTypes);

				var resultPair = _implementations.GetOrCreateValue(ref _implementationsLock, immutableArray, (key) => _CreateProxyClass(key, delegateType, returnType, sourceInvoke, parameters));
				var instance = resultPair.Constructor(delegateProxy);
				var result = Delegate.CreateDelegate(delegateType, instance, resultPair.Method);
				return result;
			}

			private static Pair _CreateProxyClass(ImmutableArray<Type> immutableArray, Type delegateType, Type returnType, MethodInfo sourceInvoke, ParameterInfo[] parameters)
			{
				int parameterCount = parameters.Length;
				var type = 
					_DynamicModule.DefineType
					(
						"Pfz.DynamicObjects.DelegateImplementations." + delegateType.Name,
						TypeAttributes.Public | TypeAttributes.Sealed,
						typeof(BaseImplementedProxy),
						Type.EmptyTypes
					);

				var constructor = 
					type.DefineConstructor
					(
						MethodAttributes.Public,
						CallingConventions.Standard,
						_proxyTypes
					);
				var constructorGenerator = constructor.GetILGenerator();
				constructorGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_0);
				constructorGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_1);
				constructorGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Call, InterfaceProxier._baseImplementedProxyConstructorInfo);

				constructorGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_0);
				constructorGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_1);
				constructorGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Stfld, InterfaceProxier._baseImplementedProxyFieldInfo);
				constructorGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Ret);

				var method = 
					type.DefineMethod
					(
						"Invoke",
						MethodAttributes.Public,
						returnType,
						sourceInvoke.GetParameterTypes()
					);

				var methodGenerator = method.GetILGenerator();

				methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_0);
				methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Ldfld, InterfaceProxier._baseImplementedProxyFieldInfo);
				if (parameters.Length == 0)
				{
					methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Ldnull);
				}
				else
				{
					methodGenerator.DeclareLocal(typeof(object[]));
					methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Ldc_I4, parameterCount);
					methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Newarr, typeof(object));
					methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Stloc_0);

					int parameterIndex = -1;
					foreach(var parameter in parameters)
					{
						parameterIndex++;

						methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Ldloc_0);
						methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Ldc_I4, parameterIndex);
						methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg, parameterIndex+1);

						var parameterType = parameter.ParameterType;
						var effectiveType = parameterType;

						if (parameterType.IsByRef)
						{
							effectiveType = parameterType.GetElementType();
							methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Ldobj, effectiveType);
						}

						if (parameterType.IsValueType)
							methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Box, effectiveType);

						methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Stelem_Ref);
					}

					methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Ldloc_0);
				}

				methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Callvirt, _invokeMethod);

				for (int i = 0; i < parameterCount; i++)
				{
					var parameter = parameters[i];
					var parameterType = parameter.ParameterType;

					if (!parameterType.IsByRef)
						continue;

					parameterType = parameterType.GetElementType();

					methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg, i + 1);
					methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Ldloc_0);
					methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Ldc_I4, i);
					methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Ldelem_Ref);

					if (parameterType.IsValueType)
						methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Unbox_Any, parameterType);

					methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Stobj, parameterType);
				}

				if (returnType == typeof(void))
					methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Pop);
				else
				if (returnType.IsValueType)
					methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Unbox_Any, returnType);

				methodGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Ret);

				var realType = type.CreateType();
				var pair = new Pair();
				var constructorInfo = realType.GetConstructor(_proxyTypes);
				pair.Constructor = ReflectionHelper.GetConstructorDelegate(constructorInfo);
				pair.Method = realType.GetMethod("Invoke");
				return pair;
			}
		#endregion
	}
}

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