Type.GetType(“namespace.a.b.ClassName”) returns null

Question

This code:

Type.GetType(\"namespace.a.b.ClassName\")

returns null.

and I have in the usings:

using nam         


        

Answer 1

This solution above seems to be the best to me, but it didn't work for me, so I did it as follows:

AssemblyName assemblyName = AssemblyName.GetAssemblyName(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~\\Bin\\AnotherAssembly.dll"));
string typeAssemblyQualifiedName = string.Join(", ", "MyNamespace.MyType", assemblyName.FullName);

Type myType = Type.GetType(typeAssemblyQualifiedName);

The precondition is that you know the path of the assembly. In my case I know it because this is an assembly built from another internal project and its included in our project's bin folder.

In case it matters I am using Visual Studio 2013, my target .NET is 4.0. This is an ASP.NET project, so I am getting absolute path via HttpContext. However, absolute path is not a requirement as it seems from MSDN on AssemblyQualifiedNames