I'm trying do some debugging in the Immediate Window, how do you execute things such as Assembly.Get...()? The only thing I get is The name 'Assembly' does not exist in the current context. I do have using System.Reflection at the stack that I'm looking at, I even have code such as
Assembly ass = Assembly.GetCurrentExecutingAssembly();
But running Assembly.GetEntryAssembly() again trying to poke around in the Immediate Window still doesn't work.
One thing though, is that the code I am trying to debug is from my other dll that I compiled. Does it change anything? It has using System.Reflection; on the file that I'm trying to debug.
error CS0103: The name 'Assembly' does not exist in the current context
Update:
Actually, is weird, it looks like I lost access to the Assembly when the code is in another dll. See below, at the stacks where you see Hello.exe I can access Assembly just fine, however, as soon as it tries to execute code that are from my other dll, I can't grab the Assembly.
MyProgram.Assembly.dll!MyProgram.Xml.XAdESBuilder.AddTimeStampNode() Line 195 C# Symbols loaded.
Hello.exe!MyProgram.Crate.EDSCrateXMLBuilder.BuildRootNode() Line 458 C# Symbols loaded.
Hello.exe!MyProgram.Crate.EDSCrateXMLBuilder.Build(MyProgram.Logger provided) Line 140 C# Symbols loaded.
Hello.exe!MyProgram.Crate.CrateSigner.Crate() Line 82 C# Symbols loaded.
Hello.exe!MyProgram.GUI.SignCrate() Line 463 C# Symbols loaded.
Hello.exe!MyProgram.GUI.BtnSignCrate_Click.AnonymousMethod__28_0() Line 320 C# Symbols loaded.
[External Code] Annotated Frame
Update2:
In reply to Wendy's comment, here is the hierarchy. I have 2 VS solutions, one is to build a giant merged Assembly that will be use by other program. So in MyProgram.Assembly solution, i has several projects, each project would build their own dll, then I have my Assembly project, this one would merge all other dlls together generating my MyProgram.Assembly.dll.
Then MyOtherProgram would add a Reference towards MyProgram.Assembly.dll and use it just like any other dll.
I'd also like to point out that, the code itself have access to Assembly, just not the Immediate Window, for example:
Assembly assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
assembly.GetType(); // set break point here
If I set my breakpoint at the above mentioned code, then type Assembly in Immediate Window it would still say Assembly not found, but I can see in Autos that the visible is being set properly.
Please note that, there is nothing wrong with my programs, everything runs as expected, but to get there, I had to write code and re-run the program many times just to know what values I was getting from Assembly until I finally got what i wanted... it just that it was very frustrating and annoying not be able to debug it using Immediate Window as I think it should.
I get the same error message when there has two projects in a solution and I don't selected any of them in Solution Explorer.
So please make sure you have selected one of project in Solution Explorer and then type command in Immediate Window.