Is the reflection namespace a building block for writing a quine in C#?

Question

Do I need to use reflection to write a quine program for C#? I read elsewhere - quine that opening the source file from disk is "cheating" So I guess using .net reflector and/or opening the source file using System.IO is a hack.

Are there other ways other than using Reflection that I should be considering.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

Actually you don't need reflection or anything else to make a quine, just a little string manipluation and some time.

using System;      
class Q      
{   
    static void Main()    
    {
        string s = "using System;class Q{2}static void Main(){2}string s ={1}{0}{1};
        Console.Write(string.Format(s, s, (char)34, (char)123, (char)125));{3}{3}";             
        Console.Write(string.Format(s, s, (char)34, (char)123, (char)125));          
    }   
}

Here is another stack overflow question with a similar theme. The above quine is from here.

Is the reflection namespace a building block for writing a quine in C#?

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