.NET DLL references/dependency checking utility

Question

With Visual Studio, I can see the dll references as the attached picture as an example. With this reference information, I can open the (from the example) Composition projec

Answer 1

This code will do a fairly good job at finding all the references. "temp" will be a dump of all the references it traced.

    private void PerformReferenceAnalysis()
    {
        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
        HashSet loadedAssemblies = new HashSet();
        PerformReferenceAnalysis(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(), builder, string.Empty, loadedAssemblies);
        string temp = builder.ToString();
    }

    private void PerformReferenceAnalysis(System.Reflection.Assembly assembly, StringBuilder builder, string leadingWhitespace, HashSet loadedAssemblies)
    {
        if (builder.Length > 0)
        {
            builder.AppendLine();
        }
        builder.Append(leadingWhitespace + assembly.FullName);
        System.Reflection.AssemblyName[] referencedAssemblies = assembly.GetReferencedAssemblies();
        foreach (System.Reflection.AssemblyName assemblyName in referencedAssemblies)
        {
            if (loadedAssemblies.Contains(assemblyName.Name))
            {
                continue;
            }
            loadedAssemblies.Add(assemblyName.Name);
            System.Reflection.Assembly nextAssembly;
            try
            {
                nextAssembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.ReflectionOnlyLoad(assemblyName.FullName);
            }
            catch (Exception)
            {
                try
                {
                    nextAssembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.ReflectionOnlyLoad(assemblyName.Name);
                }
                catch (Exception)
                {
                    nextAssembly = null;
                }
            }
            if (nextAssembly != null)
            {
                PerformReferenceAnalysis(nextAssembly, builder, leadingWhitespace + "| ", loadedAssemblies);
            }
        }
    }