Hi:

I'm finding it extremely difficult to get information.
Even Wrox Professional C# isn't helping here.

Is it possible to get a collection of all the classes in a given namespace and then enumerate through them?

Now, I know I could create a collection and then programmatically enter an object for each class . . .

I've got a namespace full of classes.
This function gets an object of a class out of that namespace, based on a variable.

I don't want to have to hard code each class into this function.
The classes will come and go from time to time.

I'd like to 'find' the class based on the value in the variable.
Is there ANY way to do that?

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You need to learn the classes and tools in the System.Reflection namespace. There are methods in there to allow you to load assemblies, explore them, get items of types (properties, fields, methods, etc). I imagine there is a way to get all the classes (Types) of a namespace as well though I don't know off hand what the method calls are for this.

-Peter

There is no way to do this.
You must iterate through all classes and note which ones have the Namespace value you want.

i.e., Namespaces are a property of types - they are not a container for types (although it may appear that way from the structure of source code).

Looks like reflection won't help with this, but I really just want to create the class from the name so plan A might work.

Thanks for the help:)