Find Types in All Assemblies

Question

I need to look for specific types in all assemblies in a web site or windows app, is there an easy way to do this? Like how the controller factory for ASP.NET MVC looks acr

Answer 1

LINQ solution with check to see if the assembly is dynamic:

/// 

/// Looks in all loaded assemblies for the given type.
/// 
/// 
/// The full name of the type.
/// 
/// 
/// The  found; null if not found.
/// 
private static Type FindType(string fullName)
{
    return
        AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies()
            .Where(a => !a.IsDynamic)
            .SelectMany(a => a.GetTypes())
            .FirstOrDefault(t => t.FullName.Equals(fullName));
}