How to get Namespace of an Assembly?

c# .net assemblies namespaces
SyncMaster picture SyncMaster · Mar 17, 2009 · Viewed 68.1k times · Source

Consider i have an assembly(class library dll) which i have loaded using the following code, 

Assembly a = Assembly.LoadFrom(@"C:\Documents and Settings\E454935\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\nunit_dll_hutt\for_hutt_proj\bin\Debug\asdf.dll");

and i need to get the type of the Assembly. In order to get the type i need the namespace of the assembly. 

Type t = asm.GetType("NAMESPACE.CLASSNAME",false,true);

how can i get the Namespace in the above line.?! as inorder to get the Namespace, i need to get the type..?

Type.Namespace;

i.e i need to get the Namespace of the assembly which can be used to get its Type.

Thanks in advance

Answer

sharptooth picture sharptooth · Mar 17, 2009

Use Assembly.GetTypes() - this will get you a collection of all types and then you can get the Namespace property for each of them.

Then I guess you can simply check that all the types have same Namespace value and use this value. Otherwise add some other logic to detect what namespace to consider primary.

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