Assembly.GetTypes() - ReflectionTypeLoadException

Question

We implement a plugin framework for our application and load plugin assemblies using Assembly.Loadfrom. We then use GetTypes() and further examine the types with each plugin

Answer 1

Thanks to this post I could solve the ReflectionTypeLoadException that I was getting in a UITypeEditor. It's a designer assembly (a winforms smart-tag used at design-time) of a custom class library, that scan for some types.

/// 

/// Get the types defined in the RootComponent.
/// 
private List getAssemblyTypes(IServiceProvider provider)
{
    var types = new List();
    try
    {
        IDesignerHost host = (IDesignerHost)provider.GetService(typeof(IDesignerHost));
        ITypeResolutionService resolution = (ITypeResolutionService)provider.GetService(typeof(ITypeResolutionService));
        AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AssemblyResolve += (sender, args) =>
        {
            foreach (var assembly in ((AppDomain)sender).GetAssemblies())
            {
                if (assembly.FullName == args.Name)
                {
                    return assembly;
                }
            }

            return null;
        };

        Type rootComponentType = resolution.GetType(host.RootComponentClassName, false);
        types = rootComponentType.Assembly.GetTypes().ToList();
    }
    catch
    {
    }

    return types;
}