Question

I’m using the Type.GetType function to get reflection info about a class. if I use that function from my app all works ok, but now i need to call that function from an external dll previously loaded from my app.

This code works fine if the called from the main app

Type myType1 = Type.GetType("MyNameSpace.MyType");

but fails (myType1 returns nothing) if that code is put inside of a dll (that dll is loaded from my app)

The question is how i can use Type.GetType to load a type which exist in the Exe which load the dll?

EDIT :

I think which the question can be reformulated like
how i can load a type from the assembly which loads my dll?

MyEXE
  Myclass   
  MyDll (loaded by MyExe)
    Type.GetType //only get types of the MyDll assembly, how i can access the Myclass type which is defined on MyExe?

Answer 1

You need to use Fully Qualified Names when using DLL’s outside of the project scope

Type myType1 = Type.GetType("MyType, MyNameSpace", true, true);

Give that a try