Question

I need a method that takes a Type and returns the paths of all assemblies that used in the type.
I wrote this:

public static IEnumerable<string> GetReferencesAssembliesPaths(this Type type)
{   
 yield return type.Assembly.Location;

 foreach (AssemblyName assemblyName in type.Assembly.GetReferencedAssemblies())
 {
  yield return Assembly.Load(assemblyName).Location;
 }
}

Generally this method do the job, but have some disadvantages:

• I didn’t found how to get the referenced assemblies/types from the type itself, so i used type.Assembly.GetReferencedAssemblies() and got the references of the whole assembly, not just those that related to the type.

• type.Assembly.GetReferencedAssemblies() returns AssemblyName and has no location/path/filepath property. To get the location property, i first used Assembly.Load() and then used the location property. I dont want load assemblies to get their path, because they not necessary used, and because Assembly.Load() can fail with FileNotFoundException or BadImageFormatException.

Answer 1

I think i solved the Assembly.Load() problem by replacing it to Assembly.ReflectionOnlyLoad().

now this is how my method looks like:

public static IEnumerable<string> GetReferencesAssembliesPaths(this Type type)
{           
    yield return type.Assembly.Location;

    foreach (AssemblyName assemblyName in type.Assembly.GetReferencedAssemblies())
    {
        yield return Assembly.ReflectionOnlyLoad(assemblyName.FullName).Location;
    }
}

now the only left problem is the type.Assembly.GetReferencedAssemblies(), how do i get referenced assemblies from the type rather than from the assembly?