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HowTo: Detect Assembly dependencies at runtime

Feb 25, 2009 1 min read

I'm currently developing a small project for myself, where I'm trying to build a small plugin framework (for experimenting purposes). In that environment I just came across the problem of detecting an assemblies dependencies at runtime. And actually to my surprise it is easier as I expected.

Retrieve an instance of the current assembly. Either you have it already or it can be retrieved with
```
Assembly currentAssembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
```

Then get all of it's referenced assemblies

AssemblyName[] referencedAssemblies = currentAssembly.GetReferencedAssemblies();

This will give you a list of referenced assemblies which can then be instantiated in the way it is needed.

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