Hi,

I need to parse the referenced assemblies of a project (in order to find certain types that have to be written in a configuration file). I can work on the list of references, load the respective assembly and reflect over the types.

However this will block the DLL files and the next build will fail. Using ITypeResolutionService didn't help either.

Visual Studio loads those Assemblies as well, yet it does not lock them (probably shadow copying or some other special handling). Does anyone know how to get hold of the assembly loaded by VS?

Regards,
Alexander

You should be able to use the ReflectionOnly APIs, AFAIK this won't lock the assembly.

-Victor.

Can you share more info, like the details of the exception you're getting? I know for instance that Reflector (the .Net decompiler) uses ReflectionOnly APIs in order to not locking assemblies. It's weird that is not working for you...

-Victor.

You should be able to use the ReflectionOnly APIs, AFAIK this won't lock the assembly.

-Victor.

After Assembly.ReflectionOnlyLoadFrom, GetType throws a ReflectionTypeLoadException...

Anyway, I'll find a way to avoid the parsing.

Alexander

Can you share more info, like the details of the exception you're getting? I know for instance that Reflector (the .Net decompiler) uses ReflectionOnly APIs in order to not locking assemblies. It's weird that is not working for you...

-Victor.