How to get the assembly name and class name with full namespace of a given class in the solution?

Question

I\'m working with WPF and often have the need to get the namespace and assembly name of a given class. But I don\'t know how to do this.

So, how can we get the name

Answer 1

These should give you what you're after:

var assemblyName = typeof(ClassNameGoesHere).AssemblyQualifiedName;
var namespaceOfClass = typeof(ClassNameGoesHere).Namespace;

I see you've just added a note to your question regarding "when browsing the classes in the Solution Explorer", the simple answer is that as far as I know, you can't because that's not what Solution Explorer is for (it's there for browsing the files in a solution, not what's contained inside them) and also because:

1. One file can contain multiple classes
2. All files in one project will, generally, always compile down to a single assembly, making it redundant to display that name for each file.

You may want to see if the "Class View" gives you what you want, but, I suspect it won't.