{"id":5873,"date":"2007-06-27T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2007\/06\/27\/linq-cookbook-recipe-4-find-all-complex-types-in-a-given-assembly-kit-george\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T14:44:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T21:44:37","slug":"linq-cookbook-recipe-4-find-all-complex-types-in-a-given-assembly-kit-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/linq-cookbook-recipe-4-find-all-complex-types-in-a-given-assembly-kit-george\/","title":{"rendered":"LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 4: Find all complex types in a given assembly (Kit George)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n

Ingredients:<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

–<\/font>          <\/span><\/span><\/span>Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

–     An assembly which you want to analyze (in this example, we use mscorlib.dll, the assembly which houses String)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

–     A definition for ‘Complex Type’. In this instance, a complex type is defined as having more than 10 public methods, of which at least one has more than 3 arguments<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n

 <\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Categories: LINQ-To-Objects, LINQ and types, LINQ and WinForms<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

\n

 <\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Instructions:<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

–<\/font>          <\/span><\/span><\/span>Open Visual Studio 2008, and Click ‘File\/New Project’. <\/font><\/font>Find and double-click the ‘Windows Forms Application’ Icon<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

–<\/font>          <\/span><\/span><\/span>Drag and drop a Listbox to the form. Size the listbox to be fairly tall. <\/font><\/font>Drag and drop a button to the form<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

–<\/font>          <\/span><\/span><\/span>Double-click the button, and add the following code to the button:<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Dim<\/font> q = <\/font>From<\/font> type <\/font>In<\/font> System.Reflection.Assembly.GetAssembly( _<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

                  GetType<\/font>(<\/font>String<\/font>)).GetTypes(), _<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

                  m <\/font>In<\/font> type.GetMethods() _<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

        Where<\/font> type.IsPublic _<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

                  AndAlso<\/font> type.GetMethods.Length > 10 _<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

                  AndAlso<\/font> m.GetParameters.Length > 3 _<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

        Select<\/font> type <\/font>Distinct<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/font> <\/span><\/p>\n

ListBox1.Items.AddRange(q.ToArray)<\/font><\/dt>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ingredients: –          Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher) –     An assembly which you want to analyze (in this example, we use mscorlib.dll, the assembly which houses String) –     A definition for ‘Complex Type’. In this instance, a complex type is defined as having more than 10 public methods, of which at least one has more than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":8818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,195],"tags":[88,90,93,94,166],"class_list":["post-5873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-visual-basic","tag-kevin-halverson","tag-kit-george","tag-linq-cookbook","tag-linqvb9","tag-vb2008"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Ingredients: –          Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher) –     An assembly which you want to analyze (in this example, we use mscorlib.dll, the assembly which houses String) –     A definition for ‘Complex Type’. In this instance, a complex type is defined as having more than 10 public methods, of which at least one has more than […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}