How can I retrieve an assembly's qualified type name?

Question

How can I generate a assembly qualified type name?

For an example, when configuring a membership provider, I would have to provide a assembly qualified type name for

Answer 1

This is a nice handy tool (shell extension with source code) for copying the fully qualified name to clipboard by right clicking on any assembly.

Update: After seeing the comment from dance2die, thought of putting together a sample powershell script to export the type name to a csv file.

> [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Web")

> [System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider] | select {$_.UnderlyingSystemType.AssemblyQualifiedName } | export-csv c:\typenames.csv

Using C#, if you want to generate the assembly qualified type name with all the references set, it is easy to build a test script using reflection..

using System;
using System.Reflection;
........

Type ty = typeof(System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider);
string fullname = ty.AssemblyQualifiedName;
//"System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"