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Asked: 2026-05-11T02:31:03+00:00

I am generating an Assembly on the fly using Reflection.Emit and then saving it.

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I am generating an Assembly on the fly using Reflection.Emit and then saving it. It contains one Type and a static Main() method in it.

.NET is kind enough to automatically reference a required assembly. However, in Main(), there is a call to a method from another assembly and it doesn’t get referenced in the standard way.

When the assembly is executed, the runtime looks for this assembly and cannot find it, which is a problem.

Reflector can detect this and shows this extra assembly under the ‘depends’ list. How can I retrieve these implicit dependencies using the Reflection API?

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  1. Thanks for the responses guys, I have managed to resolve the problem.

    Here’s what happens:

    AssemblyBuilder builder = … // generate assembly

    builder.GetReferencedAssemblies(); => It will NOT return a reference to the assembly used in the method body even though I have called Save() already – it seems to return only the assemblies loaded in memory already.

    Assembly.ReflectionOnlyLoadFrom(filename).GetReferencedAssemblies() => works fine

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