Using reflection

Recently, I have worked on a tool that scan c# assemblies to discover domain events. Those event classes are decorated with [DomainEvent], so the tool search through assemblies and filter out classes with [DomainEvent] attribute.

assembly.GetLoadableTypes()
    .Where(x => !x.Name.StartsWith("<")
             && !x.Name.StartsWith("__")
             && !x.IsInterface
     );

One issue I had that I encountered an error, saying “Could not load file or assembly DomainEvents.AttributesPackage, Version=1.0.70.0”. For some reason, it couldn’t find the referencing assembly. An answer from a wise man from stackoverflow saved me a lot of time. You have to load those missing assemblies manually if any. You can do that by subscribing to AssemblyResolve event

AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AssemblyResolve += (sender, args) =>
{
    var packageName = nameof(DomainEvents.AttributesPackage);
    if (!args.Name.Contains(packageName))
        return null;

    var assembly = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies().FirstOrDefault(x => x.FullName.Contains(packageName));
    return assembly;
};