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Module::FindTypes Method

Returns an array of classes accepted by the given filter and filter criteria.

Namespace:  System.Reflection
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

public:
virtual array<Type^>^ FindTypes(
	TypeFilter^ filter, 
	Object^ filterCriteria
)

Parameters

filter
Type: System.Reflection::TypeFilter

The delegate used to filter the classes.

filterCriteria
Type: System::Object

An Object used to filter the classes.

Return Value

Type: array<System::Type>
An array of type Type containing classes that were accepted by the filter.

ExceptionCondition
ReflectionTypeLoadException

One or more classes in a module could not be loaded.

ReflectionTypeLoadException is a special class load exception. The ReflectionTypeLoadException.Types property contains the array of classes that were defined in the module and were loaded. This array may contain some null values. The ReflectionTypeLoadException.LoaderExceptions property is an array of exceptions that represent the exceptions that were thrown by the class loader. The holes in the class array line up with the exceptions.

The delegate given by filter is called for each class in the module, passing along the Type object representing the class as well as the given filterCriteria. If filter returns a particular class, that class will be included in the returned array. If filter returns nullptr, all classes are returned and filterCriteria is ignored.

FindTypes cannot be used to look up parameterized types such as arrays.

The following example demonstrates the FindTypes method.

using namespace System;
using namespace System::Reflection;
using namespace System::Collections;
public ref class MySecondClass{};


// This class does not fit the filter criterion My*. 
public ref class YourClass{};

int main()
{
   array<Module^>^moduleArray;
   moduleArray = Assembly::GetExecutingAssembly()->GetModules( false );

   // In a simple project with only one module, the module at index 
   // 0 will be the module containing these classes.
   Module^ myModule = moduleArray[ 0 ];
   array<Type^>^tArray;
   tArray = myModule->FindTypes( Module::FilterTypeName, "My*" );
   IEnumerator^ myEnum = tArray->GetEnumerator();
   while ( myEnum->MoveNext() )
   {
      Type^ t = safe_cast<Type^>(myEnum->Current);
      Console::WriteLine( "Found a module beginning with My*: {0}.", t->Name );
   }
}

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The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0
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