Assembly.GetTypes() throwing an exception

Getting a type from a assembly may require additional assemblies to be loaded so that is most probably the reason for the error; a failure to load a dependent assembly. However a .NET assembly may be constructed from several modules in different files so I believe you may also face this problem if you have a multifile assembly and one or more of the files are missing or corrupt.

Associated with the error you should get more information about the specific assembly that could not be loaded.

If you just want to load a list of the loadable types in the assembly you can use a extension method like this:

public static IEnumerable<Type> GetLoadableTypes(this Assembly assembly)
{
    if (assembly == null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(assembly));
    try
    {
        return assembly.GetTypes();
    }
    catch (ReflectionTypeLoadException e)
    {
        return e.Types.Where(t => t != null);
    }
}

(Source: Get All Types in an Assembly)