Metadata (Unmanaged API Reference)

The metadata API enables a client, such as a compiler, to generate or access a component's metadata without the types being loaded by the common language runtime (CLR).

In This Section

• Overview of Metadata
  Provides general information about how to use the metadata API, an overview of tokens, and coding conventions.

• Metadata Interfaces
  Describes the unmanaged interfaces that provide access to the metadata exposed by the .NET Framework types, methods, fields, and so on.

• Metadata Global Static Functions
  Describes the unmanaged global static functions that the metadata API uses.

• Metadata Enumerations
  Describes the unmanaged enumerations that the metadata API uses.

• Metadata Structures
  Describes the unmanaged structures that the metadata API uses.

• Metadata Unions
  Describes the unmanaged unions that the metadata API uses.