AJ, I had the same issue where I needed to traverse the Types in an assembly and I settled on using Mono.Cecil. The way I was able to walk through each Class and if a Property in a Class was not another Class instead of a CLR type was through a recursive function.
Have a look at NDepend - it does this, and much more.
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