Using System.Reflection to determine ALL references

Question

I am trying to determine every single reference inside a dll with System.Reflection. However, GetReferencedAssemblies only lists the ones in the "References" (visible in solution explorer).

I would like to determine references from within the code itself, such as an imports statement. Even things like if/then statements, try/catch, absolutely everything.

Is this possible to do using System.Reflection? If so, how?

I would definitely prefer to do this without p/invoke.

Thanks for the help!

This is in vb.net.

Answer 1

Sounds like you need NDepend.

(If you are writing a tool to analyze an app that's a big task)

Answer 2

You are confusing namespace names with assembly names. System.IO is a namespace. It actually appears in more than one assembly. The System.IO.File class lives in mscorlib.dll, System.IO.FileSystemWatcher in system.dll, System.IO.Pipes.PipeStream in system.core.dll

GetReferencedAssemblies is accurate.

Play around with Red Gate's Reflector before writing this code.