How can I obtain the System.Type of a type in an external shared assembly?

Question

I created a shared assembly MyTypes.dll that contains a public FooBar class type. I have referenced it in multiple projects and it works as expected.

I have determined its full display name to be: "MyTypes, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=624e4a808e6fc010" .

I created a new project NewProject and added MyTypes as a reference. I would like to determine the members of FooBar from within NewProject using System.Type.GetType() .

Here is what I've written:

// NewProject.cs
using System;
using System.Reflection;

// namespace... class... method...
Type fb;
fb = Type.GetType("MyTypes.FooBar, MyTypes"); // or the full display name
// Exception will be thrown because fb is set to null
MemberInfo[] fbMembers = fb.GetMembers();

However, as noted in the code comments, I cannot provide the correct string format to GetType in order to return a valid Type for the external assembly. Also, this approach will work for anything within the current assembly.

EDIT Turns out the public key token was missing a digit (copy/paste).

Answer 1

The Type.GetType(string) method requires the assembly qualified type name which looks like this:

<Namespace>.<TypeName>, <AssemblyName>, Version=XXXX, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null

However, if you've referenced the assembly, you should just be able to use typeof(FooBar).GetMembers() .