Why does Assembly.GetTypes() require references?

Question

I want to get all of the types from my assembly, but I don\'t have the references, nor do I care about them. What does finding the interface types have to do with the refere

Answer 1

In order to load the assembly, it's necessary to load the assembly's dependencies. If, for example, your assembly contains a type that returns an XmlNode then you will have to load System.Xml.dll