What is the difference between Early and Late Binding?

James A. Rosen picture James A. Rosen · Aug 14, 2008 · Viewed 95.2k times · Source

What is the difference between early and late binding?

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Christian Hagelid picture Christian Hagelid · Aug 14, 2008

The short answer is that early (or static) binding refers to compile time binding and late (or dynamic) binding refers to runtime binding (for example when you use reflection).