GetType on a class in a referenced assembly fails

Question

I have an asp.net web project that references a domain project.

From within the web project, I want to create an instance of a class from the domain project using re

Answer 1

You can get a type by name alone if you have the Assembly it's in. Would that work for you?

That way you could specify the assembly name in a separate location from the types you're trying to access.

Assembly assembly = typeof(System.Linq.Enumerable).Assembly;
Type type = assembly.GetType("System.Linq.Enumerable");

Answer 2

You can do something like this, ignoring those attributes:

Dim myType as Type = Type.GetType("System.Linq.Enumerable")); 

or:

Dim myType as Type = Type.GetType("System.Linq.Enumerable, System.Core"));