Question

I have the following code inside a Form, and am attempting to find a way to load a project assembly referenced by the form called DataObjects. Using the following code, I only get six assemblies listed. Looking at the references for the project the form is in, there are thirteen assembly references. What is wrong here?

private void ListReferencedAssemblies()
{
    var assemblies = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetReferencedAssemblies();
    foreach (var assembly in assemblies)
    {
        referencesListBox.Items.Add(assembly.Name);
    }
} 

Answer 1

Could you please check the assembly’s manifest to see what is referenced here?

C# compiler tends to remove referenced assemblies from the manifest if they are not used. Therefore if you don’t refer to any type from assembly B or refer only to constants from assembly B (that are inlined by complier) then you will not have this references.