[Mono-dev] Type.GetType inside of dynamic assembly

[Robert Jordan]

Hi Jon,

> 	Might be a simple question, but I'll ask anyway. I have a small
> program that calls Type.GetType("MyType, MyAssembly"). This works fine.
> The program references "MyAssembly" at compile time. 
> 	I also reference another assembly (say "MyAssembly2") in the
> executable. MyAssembly2 doesn't reference MyAssembly. I pass the string
> "MyType, MyAssembly" to a method in MyAssembly2 that calls
> Type.GetType() with the string. This call fails.
> 	This all works on Windows under MS.Net, and I'm wondering what I
> need to do differently on Linux with Mono. All files are in the same
> directory.

Since Linux file systems are usually case sensitive, the name
of the assembly must match the file system name.
Are you sure your assembly has exactly the file name "MyAssembly2.dll"?

Rob.