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Is there a tool or visual studio feature that makes it easy to look up the Assembly Qualified Name of a Type in the GAC?
I would like to check to see if a Type is available at runtime for a system, in which I need that name and I am interested in sometime easier then writing some throw away code to look it up.
If you use reflector, you can a: load from the GAC, and b: get this in two parts – the assembly name (including signature) is on the assembly node in the tree, for example (displayed at the bottom of the page):
and of course the type name is at the leaf level:
That still leaves the awkward nested types, but just add + instead of .
Not ideal, perhaps, but pretty workable.