Assemblies in a domain - VB..NET

The following VB.NET program retrieves the assemblies that have been loaded into the execution context of this application domain. Assembly represents a reusable, versionable, and self-describing building block of a Common Language Runtime application.

System.Reflection.Assembly

The System.Reflection namespace contains types that retrieve information about assemblies, modules, members, parameters, and other entities in managed code by examining their metadata. We use the AppDomain.GetAssemblies method to retrieve an array of Assembly objects representing the assemblies currently loaded into an application domain.

  Dim _appDomain As AppDomain
  Dim myAssemblies() As Reflection.Assembly
  _appDomain = AppDomain.CurrentDomain
  myAssemblies = _appDomain.GetAssemblies

Use the Assembly class to load assemblies, to explore the metadata and constituent parts of assemblies, to discover the types contained in assemblies, and to create instances of those types.

Public Class Form1

	Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

		Dim _appDomain As AppDomain
		Dim myAssemblies() As Reflection.Assembly
		Dim myAssembly As Reflection.Assembly

		_appDomain = AppDomain.CurrentDomain
		myAssemblies = _appDomain.GetAssemblies
		For Each myAssembly In myAssemblies
			MsgBox(myAssembly.FullName)
		Next

	End Sub
End Class