I have this:

Dim loAssembly As System.Reflection.Assembly = Nothing
loAssembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFrom(oApp.cHttpFat + "Bin\LevelExtreme.dll")
loClass = loAssembly.GetType("LevelExtreme.ListClient")
loList = Activator.CreateInstance(loClass, loParameter)

But, I would surely like to avoid loading the dll in memory just to get access to the reference I am looking for.