I am trying to create an VS add in for my reporting engine. I need to be able to loop through each project and then loop through the project and find reports by type. (Like you do with the Bo Mapper) .. i am trying something like below just cannot figure out how to load or just get at the assembly. thanks for  any help

Dim LoProject As Project

Dim loAssembly As Reflection.Assembly

Try

'Check to see if Solution is open, I forget everytime debugging this

If Not _appobject.Solution.IsOpen Then

MessageBox.Show("Please load solution")

Else

For Each LoProject In _appobject.Solution.Projects

'show what projects we have

MessageBox.Show("Project Name: " & LoProject.FullName)

'-- Here i need to be able to load the assembly and then do through the types

' loAssembly = Reflection.Assembly.Load

For Each loType As Type In loAssembly.GetTypes()

If loType.IsSubclassOf(GetType(DevExpress.XtraReports.UI.XtraReport)) Then

Me.ListView1.Items.Add(loType.FullName)

End If

Next

Next

End If

Catch objException As System.Exception

MessageBox.Show(objException.ToString)

End Try

 

That won't work in most cases.  You will have to use the ITypeDiscoveryService to search for the object types.  Using the IsSubClassOf will work under cetain conditions, but you will miss a lot of classes or types.  You can get the ITypeDiscoveryService reference through the GetService method on a provider (IServiceProvider):