Taking out all classes of a specific namespace

c#, namespaces, reflection

Solution

You can find all the types within an assembly, and find all of those types which match the given namespace (this is really easy with LINQ) - but if you don't have a specific assembly to look through, you need to examine all of the possible ones.

However, if you're looking for a way of finding all the live objects, that's a different matter - and you can't do it without using the profiler API, as far as I'm aware. (Even then it may be hard - I don't know.)

Here's the LINQ query though:

public static IEnumerable<Type> GetTypesFromNamespace(Assembly assembly, 
                                               String desiredNamespace)
{
    return assembly.GetTypes()
                   .Where(type => type.Namespace == desiredNamespace);
}

Problem

Is there a way to get an object from a specific namespace? Perhaps with the `System.Reflections`? I want to get all objects from type `ITestType` in the namespace `Test.TestTypes` as Objects so that I have a list of instances of `TestType1, TestType2, TestType3` and so on. Can Someone help me? I don't know where to search for that.

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