What do I do about when Type.GetType fails for types like System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElement I have created an addin that I want to be able to see what are the attributes for a given class but it is failing on this one all the time. If I need to load the assembly first how do I look at references for a ProjectItem so I can load the assembly if needed before calling GetType
Type.GetType
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Type.GetType
Aigarslv
I did exactly what you specified above I just didn't put it in my example ;)
Ted Eiles
Just so people know what I had to do what use the VSProject2 in order to get to the references of a project to get the full path of the assembly then load it and then call GetType on the assembly.
Example: VS 2005 ;)
VSLangProj80.VSProject2 vsProject = project.Object as VSLangProj80.VSProject2;
foreach(Reference2 reference in vsProject.References)
{
Assembly asm = Assembly.LoadFile(reference.Path);
type = asm.GetType(fullName);
if (type != null)
return type;
}
Scott Hodgin
Type type = Type.GetType(fullName);
if (type == null) {
VSLangProj80.VSProject2 vsProject = project.Object as VSLangProj80.VSProject2;
foreach(Reference2 reference in vsProject.References)
{
Assembly asm = Assembly.LoadFile(reference.Path);
type = asm.GetType(fullName);
if (type != null)
return type;
}
}
And you could make this search smarter if you did some heuristic matching of the type's full name and the known assembly names - since there's usually some name matching at the namespace level.
Michel Mathijssen