C# filter referenced assemblies on calling assembly

Question

I have a classlib and a solution located in different directories.

from classlib I am calling GetCallingAssembly that returns an executable from solution followed by callingAssembly.GetReferencedAssemblies that returns the references, now I want to perform an optimization to filter out the references and remove all package refs, aiming to find a certain type.

Note: I don't want to depend on Name property of references.

Answer 1

...if you just want to find all types in all loaded assemblies that are derived from your AggregateRoot type, without searching assemblies that can't possibly contain a subclass, then all you need is this:

public static IEnumerable<Type> GetAllTypesDerivedFromAggregateRoot()
{
    Assembly[] asses = AppDomain.Current.GetAssemblies();

    Type typeofRoot = typeof(AggregateRoot);
    AssemblyName mustReferenceThisAssembly = typeofRoot.Assembly.GetName();

    List<Assembly> candidates = asses
        .Where( ass => ass
            .GetReferencedAssemblies()
            .Any( ra => AssemblyName.ReferenceMatches( reference: ra, definition: mustReferenceThisAssembly ) )
        )
        .ToList();

    foreach( Assembly candidate in candidates )
    {
        Type[] types = candidate.GetTypes();
        foreach( Type t in types )
        {
            if( typeofRoot.IsAssignableFrom( t ) ) yield return t;
        }
    }
}