I need to get a list of assemblies in a directory. Is there another way than this?
System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(directory, '*.dll') I need to get a list of assemblies in a directory. Is there another
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I need to get a list of assemblies in a directory. Is there another way than this?
System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(directory, '*.dll')
Managed assemblies can also be EXEs. And your code just gets files with the extension ‘dll’. Ntive DLLs, which are not assemblies, would also be returned.
In the few occasions I needed to do this, I simply got a list of all files (similar to what you’ve done), and then used Assemby.LoadFrom to attempt to load each, trappig the exception in the event its native. The typical exception is a ReflectionTypeLoadException, though you also may get this if a reference can’t be resolved.