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Does a referenced assembly get loaded if no types in the assembly are “not used”? The term used is is very subjective. For a developer it would mean that you probably never created an instance or called a method on it. But this does not cover the whole story. You can instead consider what are the reasons...

Incase you are not sure of how to debug managed code with with a crash/hang dump, then you most likely need to read this first. Once you have SOS and mscordacwks(.net 3.5 and up)  loaded you first dump the heap to find out if you have any services hosts at all. We quickly find the method table entry...