How can I get a list of assemblies in a given location? I’m trying to reflect over the appdomain, and that’s giving me everything that’s loaded. I just want what’s in the executing assembly’s directory.
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How can I get a list of assemblies in a given location? I’m trying to reflect over the appdomain, and that’s giving me everything that’s loaded. I just want what’s in the executing assembly’s directory.
The solution provided by BtBh works to find all files with extension .dll. Ricards remarks that only .Net runtime can tell you what is valid assembly. This means that you would have to explicitly load every .dll file found to check whether it is a valid .Net assembly (it could just be a plain old Windows dll). As mentioned by Josh there is a static method Assembly.ReflectionOnlyLoadFrom that allows you to load assemblies for inspection via reflection.