LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 4: Find all complex types in a given assembly (Kit George)
Ingredients:
- Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher)
- An assembly which you want to analyze (in this example, we use mscorlib.dll, the assembly which houses String)
- A definition for 'Complex Type'. In this instance, a complex type is defined as having more than 10 public methods, of which at least one has more than 3 arguments
Categories: LINQ-To-Objects, LINQ and types, LINQ and WinForms
Instructions:
- Open Visual Studio 2008, and Click ‘File/New Project’. Find and double-click the ‘Windows Forms Application’ Icon
- Drag and drop a Listbox to the form. Size the listbox to be fairly tall. Drag and drop a button to the form
- Double-click the button, and add the following code to the button:
Dim q = From type In System.Reflection.Assembly.GetAssembly( _
GetType(String)).GetTypes(), _
m In type.GetMethods() _
Where type.IsPublic _
AndAlso type.GetMethods.Length > 10 _
AndAlso m.GetParameters.Length > 3 _
Select type Distinct
ListBox1.Items.AddRange(q.ToArray)
