How do you call Assembly in Immediate Window?

Question

I'm trying do some debugging in the Immediate Window , how do you execute things such as Assembly.Get...() ? The only thing I get is The name 'Assembly' does not exist in the current context . I do have using System.Reflection at the stack that I'm looking at, I even have code such as

Assembly ass = Assembly.GetCurrentExecutingAssembly();

But running Assembly.GetEntryAssembly() again trying to poke around in the Immediate Window still doesn't work.

One thing though, is that the code I am trying to debug is from my other dll that I compiled. Does it change anything? It has using System.Reflection; on the file that I'm trying to debug.

error CS0103: The name 'Assembly' does not exist in the current context

Update :

Actually, is weird, it looks like I lost access to the Assembly when the code is in another dll. See below, at the stacks where you see Hello.exe I can access Assembly just fine, however, as soon as it tries to execute code that are from my other dll, I can't grab the Assembly .

MyProgram.Assembly.dll!MyProgram.Xml.XAdESBuilder.AddTimeStampNode() Line 195   C#  Symbols loaded.
Hello.exe!MyProgram.Crate.EDSCrateXMLBuilder.BuildRootNode() Line 458   C#  Symbols loaded.
Hello.exe!MyProgram.Crate.EDSCrateXMLBuilder.Build(MyProgram.Logger provided) Line 140  C#  Symbols loaded.
Hello.exe!MyProgram.Crate.CrateSigner.Crate() Line 82   C#  Symbols loaded.
Hello.exe!MyProgram.GUI.SignCrate() Line 463    C#  Symbols loaded.
Hello.exe!MyProgram.GUI.BtnSignCrate_Click.AnonymousMethod__28_0() Line 320 C#  Symbols loaded.
[External Code]     Annotated Frame

Update2 :

In reply to Wendy's comment, here is the hierarchy. I have 2 VS solutions, one is to build a giant merged Assembly that will be use by other program. So in MyProgram.Assembly solution, i has several projects, each project would build their own dll, then I have my Assembly project, this one would merge all other dlls together generating my MyProgram.Assembly.dll .

Then MyOtherProgram would add a Reference towards MyProgram.Assembly.dll and use it just like any other dll.

I'd also like to point out that, the code itself have access to Assembly , just not the Immediate Window , for example:

Assembly assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
assembly.GetType(); // set break point here

If I set my breakpoint at the above mentioned code, then type Assembly in Immediate Window it would still say Assembly not found, but I can see in Autos that the visible is being set properly.

Please note that, there is nothing wrong with my programs, everything runs as expected, but to get there, I had to write code and re-run the program many times just to know what values I was getting from Assembly until I finally got what i wanted... it just that it was very frustrating and annoying not be able to debug it using Immediate Window as I think it should.

Answer 1

I get the same error message when there has two projects in a solution and I don't selected any of them in Solution Explorer.

So please make sure you have selected one of project in Solution Explorer and then type command in Immediate Window.