Why is Assembly.GetType() not finding my class?

Question

Code excerpt:

var a = Assembly.LoadFile("MyAssembly.dll");
var t = a.GetType("MyNamespace.MyClass", false);
Debug.Assert(t != null); // fails

Assembly.LoadFile() is loading the assembly without any trouble, but Assembly.GetType() is returning null, even though I have verified that MyNamespace.MyClass is present and correctly spelled.

Any other ideas why this is happening?

Answer 1

In the line

var t = a.GetType("MyNamespace.MyClass", false);

set that boolean to true so you get an exception that could explain the problem. For various problem situations you get separate exceptions, see MSDN or the new docs.