How to get controls of the form from an assembly using Reflection?

Question

I am trying to retrieve all control names of the form from compiled assembly.

I can get the list of all forms:

Assembly asm = Assembly.LoadFrom(_assemblyPath); // Get the list of types defined in the assembly and derived from System.Windows.Forms.Form var lForms = asm.GetTypes().Where(x => x.IsSubclassOf(typeof(Form))).ToList();

But then I have a problem when I am trying to instantiate the types (as I need to retrieve the controls of the form). 
I cannot use the:

Form o = Activator.CreateInstance(form, true) as Form; 

as some forms have no default constructors defined.

Is there any other way to retrieve the data I need?

Regards

Vulpes · Answer

There is a way to create an object without calling its constructor using the FormatterServices.GetUninitializedObject method ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.serialization.formatterservices.getuninitializedobject.aspx ). As long as you don't need to instantiate the controls (they'll all be null by default) that may suffice to get their names. If you do need to instantiate the controls you'll need to call the InitializeComponent() method using reflection (as it's private) and hope that there's no other code in the constructor that affects the controls.