When does `Assembly.GetType(name)` return `null`?

Question

I have a code like shown below

public static Type ToType(Type sType)
{    
    Assembly assembly = Assembly.Load(SerializableType.AssemblyName);
    type = a         


        

Answer 1

Here is an actual example from a UWP app. The app namespace is My_App. Class FooPage is under folder Views. The way to get the Type is the following:

Type typePage = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetType("My_App.Views.FooPage}");

If you are not sure about the name of your type, use the following code to dump all classes and find the one of interest:

foreach(Type t in Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetTypes())
{
    Debug.WriteLine($"{t.Namespace}.{t.Name}");
}