Do you want to enumerate classes that implement a particular interface or enumerate classes that derive from some base class? These are two different issues. Both as far as I know would be hard to implement since new implementations can be created/installed on a PC at any time in the future. It sounds like you are trying to create a factory method to instantiate a particular instance and you don't want to hard-code the class name in the code. Usually using a config file that enumerates all the classes that implement the interface is the way to go (or a database can be used). As new classes implement the interface, you add them to the config file and the factory should pick up the new class name.
