How to prevent ReflectionTypeLoadException when calling Assembly.GetTypes()

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One fairly nasty way would be:

Type[] types;
try
{
    types = asm.GetTypes();
}
catch (ReflectionTypeLoadException e)
{
    types = e.Types;
}
foreach (var t in types.Where(t => t != null))
{
    ...
}

It’s definitely annoying to have to do this though. You could use an extension method to make it nicer in the “client” code:

public static IEnumerable<Type> GetLoadableTypes(this Assembly assembly)
{
    // TODO: Argument validation
    try
    {
        return assembly.GetTypes();
    }
    catch (ReflectionTypeLoadException e)
    {
        return e.Types.Where(t => t != null);
    }
}

You may well wish to move the return statement out of the catch block – I’m not terribly keen on it being there myself, but it probably is the shortest code…

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