Is there a way to get the assembly information (name, description, version) programmatically (in C#) without loading the classes into the AppDomain?
I just need the information from the manifest and nothing else.
Is Assembly.ReflectionOnlyLoad(..) what I need? Or does it load the classes, too?
For Example: I have a dictionary with Files and I want to list the assembly names, descriptions and versions. I don't want to use these Assemblies at this point.
You're looking for AssemblyName.GetAssemblyName method which returns an AssemblyName instance. It has Name, Version, PublicKey and some basic information about the assembly.