I have a broken Assembly that I want to reflect over, its not broken badly, it just cannot find a referenced assembly, so it does fail a PEVerify. But….Assembly.LoadFrom() will still load it and GetTypes() will throw a ReflectionTypeLoadException, the .LoaderExceptions array shows me what referenced assembly cannot be found. At this point I am roadblocked.
However, the great little tool Reflector is able to go further and actually display the contained types, and handles gracefully the missing reference issue by giving me a pop-up dialog to browse for it. My question is, How after the GetTypes() fails does reflector manage to get the types anyway?
Reflector doesn’t use System.Reflection to analyse an assembly.
I don’t know which library Reflector uses, but you might want to have a look at Cecil.