What are you trying to accomplish with shader reflection?

In order to use the reflection API with an effect, you're going to have to get the byte code for the individual shader fragments that make up each effect pass, e.g. after compiling an effect, given an EffectPass:


EffectPass pass; //From your effect

EffectShaderVariable shaderVar = pass.VertexShaderDescription.Variable;
ShaderDescription shDesc;
shaderVar.GetShaderDescription(0, out shDesc);
ShaderReflection reflect = new ShaderReflection(shDesc.Bytecode);

//Do something with the reflection object

//Don't forget to dispose of these afterwards, otherwise the slimdx object table will report them as a leak!
reflect.Dispose();
shDesc.Signature.Dispose();
shDesc.Bytecode.Dispose();


The above would be reflecting over the vertex shader in the given pass, e.g. say you want to create an input layout up front when loading your effect you can use the ShaderReflection to examine the inputs.