System.ComponentModel.ReflectTypeDescriptionProvider.ReflectedTypeData.GetTypeFromName C# (CSharp) Method

            private Type GetTypeFromName(string typeName)
            {
                if (typeName == null || typeName.Length == 0)
                {
                    return null;
                }

                int commaIndex = typeName.IndexOf(',');
                Type t = null;

                if (commaIndex == -1)
                {
                    t = _type.GetTypeInfo().Assembly.GetType(typeName);
                }

                if (t == null)
                {
                    t = Type.GetType(typeName);
                }

                if (t == null && commaIndex != -1)
                {
                    // At design time, it's possible for us to reuse
                    // an assembly but add new types.  The app domain
                    // will cache the assembly based on identity, however,
                    // so it could be looking in the previous version
                    // of the assembly and not finding the type.  We work
                    // around this by looking for the non-assembly qualified
                    // name, which causes the domain to raise a type 
                    // resolve event.
                    //
                    t = Type.GetType(typeName.Substring(0, commaIndex));
                }

                return t;
            }