I’ve used a helper method that searches all loaded Assemblys for a Type matching the specified name. Even though in my code only one Type result was expected it supports multiple. I verify that only one result is returned every time I used it and suggest you do the same.
/// <summary>
/// Gets a all Type instances matching the specified class name with just non-namespace qualified class name.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="className">Name of the class sought.</param>
/// <returns>Types that have the class name specified. They may not be in the same namespace.</returns>
public static Type[] getTypeByName(string className)
{
List<Type> returnVal = new List<Type>();
foreach (Assembly a in AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies())
{
Type[] assemblyTypes = a.GetTypes();
for (int j = 0; j < assemblyTypes.Length; j++)
{
if (assemblyTypes[j].Name == className)
{
returnVal.Add(assemblyTypes[j]);
}
}
}
return returnVal.ToArray();
}