Roslyn: How do I tell if a particular assembly is referenced in a Compilation?

Question

I'm writing a Roslyn diagnostic analyzer. I want to tell if System.Collections.Immutable is referenced in RegisterCompilationStartAction before I register any other actions. This is the way I'm going about it so far:

context.RegisterCompilationStartAction(compilationStartContext =>
{
    var compilation = compilationStartContext.Compilation;
    if (compilation.GetTypeByMetadataName("System.Collections.Immutable.ImmutableArray`1") == null)
    {
        return;
    }

    ...
});

This works, but I don't feel it's the cleanest way to do this. Can I somehow get a MetadataReference corresponding to the assembly name instead and check if it's null, like GetMetadataReference("System.Collections.Immutable") == null ? ( GetMetadataReference doesn't accept a string, so that doesn't actually work.) If not, any other cleaner way to do this that doesn't involve picking out a particular type? Thanks.

Answer 1

Instead of searching for the type you could simply search through the References and resolve the MetadataReference to check whether a specific assembly is included within a Project:

if(!compilation.References.Any(reference => 
        compilation.GetAssemblyOrModuleSymbol(reference)
        .Name == "System.Collections.Immutable"))
{
    return;
}