List of classes in assembly

Question

I've a DLL assembly, in which there are various classes. Each class has around 50-100 members and 4-5 functions.

How can I create a list of all the classes and their respective members using VB program. I need to show to the user for performing operation using a particular class.

Thanks Rahul

Answer 1

Use the classes from the System.Reflection namespace, starting with Assembly.

Answer 2

Many examples on the web, here's one (in c# though)

Answer 3

Hi,

See the documentation for System.Reflection.Assembly.GetTypes() and System.Type.GetMembers()

--larsw

Answer 4

Assuming that you've your assembly loaded to thisAsm (in this ex I'm using the executing assembly),

This will get you all non abstract classes

        Assembly thisAsm = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
        List<Type> types = thisAsm.GetTypes().Where(t => t.IsClass && !t.IsAbstract).ToList();

And this will get you all classes that implements a specific interface.

(Eg. If you need to get only the classes that implements IYourInterface, then)

Assembly thisAsm = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
List<Type> types = thisAsm.GetTypes().Where
            (t => ((typeof(IYourInterface).IsAssignableFrom(t) 
                 && t.IsClass && !t.IsAbstract))).ToList();

Once you've this list of items, you can show the members of each type, by calling the GetProperties() and GetMethods() on each member of the types list