I'm trying to iterate through the referenced assemblies in my console app. I have been doing this with BuildManager.GetReferencedAssemblies in other projects, but in my console application, I get an InvalidOperationException: This method cannot be called during the application's pre-start initialization stage.
To my knowledge, there isn't a way to delay execution in a console app. You do it in static void Main, or you don't do it at all... Anyone have any suggestions on how to get around this?
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies() didn't quite do the trick. There were some assemblies that were not included, though they were referenced. What I did was this:
allAssemblies = (from name in Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().GetReferencedAssemblies()
select Assembly.Load(name)).ToList();
This didn't return as many assemblies as AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies(), but it returned the ones I needed. Not sure why there was a discrepancy. Cerebrate, thank you for the reply though. You got me on the track I needed, and I upvoted your reply.