BuildManager.GetReferencedAssemblies equivalent for non-web applications

Question

Compared to AppDomain.GetAssemblies(), BuildManager.GetReferencedAssemblies() (System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager) seems a more reliable way to get th

Answer 1

The only way I currently see is pre-fetching all referenced assemblies manually, just as the BuildManager does under the covers:

var assemblies =
    from file in Directory.GetFiles(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory)
    where Path.GetExtension(file) == ".dll"
    select Assembly.LoadFrom(file);