Show all assemblies loaded by your C# program - 3

Sometimes it is handy to have a quick overview of all the assemblies that your C# program has loaded. Maybe because you are trying to debug a version conflict, or because you want to distribute your application and want to get an idea of its dependencies.

To find the loaded assemblies we first need to determine the current AppDomain (it is possible for your application to have more than one AppDomain, but in that case you have created the second one yourself). Each AppDomain keeps a list of Assemblies it is using and in the following example code we query it using the GetAssemblies() method.

By calling FullName we obtain the name, version, culture and public key ID for each assembly.

using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Reflection;

namespace AssemblyListing
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            AppDomain MyDomain = AppDomain.CurrentDomain;
            Assembly[] AssembliesLoaded = MyDomain.GetAssemblies();

            foreach (Assembly MyAssembly in AssembliesLoaded)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Loaded: {0}", MyAssembly.FullName);
            }
        }
    }
}

Tags: c#, reflection