Groups the utility methods that extracts the meta data of a type.

        

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using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;

namespace CodeReview.Binary
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Groups the utility methods that extracts the meta data of a type.
    /// </summary>
    internal static class Utilities
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Extracts a field from a type definition.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="type">
        /// The reference type.
        /// </param>
        /// <param name="name">
        /// The name of the field.
        /// </param>
        /// <returns>
        /// The meta data of the field or <c>null</c>.
        /// </returns>
        public static FieldInfo GetField(Type type, string name)
        {
            return type.GetField(name, Parser.AllDeclaredBindingFlags);
        }

    }
}

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