Question

I have project containing few user controls (each represents a game, but that’s irrelevant), in the second project (the game client) I want to list controls that are in that first library, create their objects and attach that control to a container. How can I do that?

These are WPF projects. Please note that I don’t want to use VS toolbox, as that library will be independently updated, while the client not.

Answer 1

Let’s imagine all your control inherit from the Control class, you can do that

   List<Type> res = new List<Type>();
        foreach (Type aType in   Assembly.LoadFile("yourdll.dll").GetTypes())
        {
            if(aType.IsSubclassOf(typeof(Control)))
                res.Add(aType);
        }

So you’ll get all your type in the res list.

EDIT

And like that you can create your instance

 Control myControl = (Control)Activator.CreateInstance(aType);