Comments on: Show all assemblies loaded by your C# program

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:22:03 +0000

Excellent, this was very useful. I used it to know what classes are implementing an interface in a plugin based application when the plugins are loaded by another assembly.

By: Martijn

Martijn — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:10:40 +0000

Hi Gareth,

Thanks for the comment — I tried to keep things readable, but you are right of course.

Cheers,
Martijn

By: Gareth

Gareth — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:56:10 +0000

Yep, this is well useful for debugging version conficts, especially with apps that have a lot of assemblies.

Assuming you didn’t want to make further use of AppDomain and Assembly[], you could shorten this to:

foreach (Assembly MyAssembly in AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies())
{
Console.WriteLine(”Loaded: {0}”, MyAssembly.FullName);
}

Sometimes I’ve made use of this functionality in WinForms “About” boxes, by enabling a “Show Loaded Assemblies” button if the program is running in Debug mode.