Type.Assembly Property
Gets the Assembly in which the type is declared. For generic types, gets the Assembly in which the generic type is defined.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Property Value
Type: System.Reflection.AssemblyAn Assembly instance that describes the assembly containing the current type. For generic types, the instance describes the assembly that contains the generic type definition, not the assembly that creates and uses a particular constructed type.
Implements
_Type.AssemblyIf the current Type object represents a constructed generic type, this property returns the assembly that contains the generic type definition. For example, suppose you create an assembly named MyGenerics.dll that contains the generic type definition MyGenericStack<T> (MyGenericStack(Of T) in Visual Basic, generic<T> ref class MyGenericStack in C++). If you create an instance of MyGenericStack<int> (MyGenericStack(Of Integer) in Visual Basic) in another assembly, the Assembly property for the constructed type returns an Assembly object that represents MyGenerics.dll.
Similarly, if the current Type object represents an unassigned generic parameter T, this property returns the assembly that contains the generic type that defines T.
If the Type.Assembly property is not available on a particular .NET platform, such as .NET Core or the Universal Windows Platform, use the System.Reflection.TypeInfo.Assembly property instead.
This property is read-only.
The following example displays the assembly name associated with the class and the fully qualified name of the type.
Imports System.Reflection Class Example Public Shared Sub Main() Dim objType As Type = GetType(System.Array) ' Display the full assembly name. Console.WriteLine("Full assembly name:{1} {0}.", objType.Assembly.FullName.ToString(), vbCrLf) ' Display the qualified assembly name. Console.WriteLine("Qualified assembly name: {1} {0}.", objType.AssemblyQualifiedName.ToString(), vbCrLf) End Sub End Class ' The example displays the following output if run under the .NET Framework 4.5: ' Full assembly name: ' mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089. ' Qualified assembly name: ' System.Array, mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089.
Available since 1.1
Portable Class Library
Supported in: portable .NET platforms
Silverlight
Available since 2.0
Windows Phone Silverlight
Available since 7.0