Easy way to look up assembly qualified names

Question

Is there a tool or visual studio feature that makes it easy to look up the Assembly Qualified Name of a Type in the GAC?

I would like to check to see if a Type is available at runtime for a system, in which I need that name and I am interested in sometime easier then writing some throw away code to look it up.

it may help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1599575/enumerating-assemblies-in-gac — Massimiliano Peluso, Sep 08 '11 at 13:29
@Massimiliano-Peluso, maybe, i'd like to not reinvent the wheel just yet. — jbtule, Sep 08 '11 at 13:37

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 08 '11 at 14:04

If you use reflector, you can a: load from the GAC, and b: get this in two parts - the assembly name (including signature) is on the assembly node in the tree, for example (displayed at the bottom of the page):

System.Xml, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089

and of course the type name is at the leaf level:

System.Xml.XmlNode

That still leaves the awkward nested types, but just add + instead of .

Not ideal, perhaps, but pretty workable.

Easy way to look up assembly qualified names

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