Ever wanted to read an assemblies metadata without actually loading the assembly, either because it was not performant enough, or the assembly was missing a reference.
Here is a little utilitiy that I wrote that will enumerate through all of an assemblies references without loading any of the actual assemblies. It uses the Unmanaged MetaData API to read the meta data. We use it to help us debug manifest definition mismathc problems.
http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/AssemblyMetaDataReader
Of course the ability to examine metadata without loading the assembly exists in the .NET 2.0 Framework
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/e2s44xz6.aspx
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