How to get C#.Net Assembly by name?

Question

Is there something like:

AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblyByName(\"TheAssemblyName\")

so instead of looping through AppDomain.Curre

Answer 1

For those who just need to access the assembly's metadata (version, etc.) check out Assembly.ReflectionOnlyLoad(name), which is able to load only the metadata, possibly saving on memory and IO.