When does `Assembly.GetType(name)` return `null`?

Question

I have a code like shown below

public static Type ToType(Type sType)
{    
    Assembly assembly = Assembly.Load(SerializableType.AssemblyName);
    type = a         


        

Answer 1

I struggled to find the correctly qualified name of a type in a dll I was trying to use, but found GetTypes() really useful in listing all available. In VB:

    Dim t As Type() = assem.GetTypes()
    Dim s As String = ""
    For i As Integer = 0 To t.Length - 1
        s = s & t(i).FullName & vbCrLf
    Next i
    MsgBox(s)