Why does Assembly.GetTypes() require references?

Question

I want to get all of the types from my assembly, but I don\'t have the references, nor do I care about them. What does finding the interface types have to do with the refere

Answer 1

It seems to be a duplicate of Get Types defined in an assembly only, where the solution is:

public static Type[] GetTypesLoaded(Assembly assembly)
{
    Type[] types;
    try
    {
        types = assembly.GetTypes();
    }
    catch (ReflectionTypeLoadException e)
    {
        types = e.Types.Where(t => t != null).ToArray();
    }

    return types;    
}