Is there a difference between Assembly.ExportedTypes and Assembly.GetExportedTypes()

Question

The .NET Assembly class contains a method (GetExportedTypes()) and a property (ExportedTypes).

The documentation for these seems identical ("Returns a collection of all public visible types in the assembly"). Is there any difference between these ? or is this something related to historical reasons with the Assembly class's API ?

Answer 1

Looking into .NET sources using ILSpy returns following ExportedTypes implementation:

public virtual IEnumerable<Type> ExportedTypes
{
    get
    {
        return this.GetExportedTypes();
    }
}

However, classes that inherits Assembly class can implement the property differently, so you probably shouldn't rely on GetExportedTypes() and ExportedTypes doing exactly the same thing.