Question about Assembly.Load

[Lee Alexander]

Why does Assembly.Load allow this:

Assembly.Load( "mscorlib" );

if you try the following it fails as expected:
Assembly.Load( "System" );

Since it should be (for framework 1.1):
Assembly.Load( "System, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" );

I would have thought you would have had to do the same for mscorlib.

Assembly.Load( "mscorlib, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" );

Anyone shed some light?
Regards
Lee

[Marcelo Birnbach [MS]]

mscorlib is a special case since you can only have one version of it per
process. When your managed application is started there is already a version
of mscorlib loaded in the process, so specifying the version of mscorlib is
completely redundant information.

Thanks,
Marcelo

"Lee Alexander" <lee@No_Spam_Please_Digita.com> wrote in message
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Why does Assembly.Load allow this:

Assembly.Load( "mscorlib" );

if you try the following it fails as expected:
Assembly.Load( "System" );

Since it should be (for framework 1.1):
Assembly.Load( "System, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" );

I would have thought you would have had to do the same for mscorlib.

Assembly.Load( "mscorlib, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" );

Anyone shed some light?
Regards
Lee

[Conrad Zhang]

For Assembly.Load related question, nothing beats Suzanne's blog.

http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/suzcook/c...8-39850cf1b98d
"Marcelo Birnbach [MS]" <mb******@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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mscorlib is a special case since you can only have one version of it per
process. When your managed application is started there is already a version of mscorlib loaded in the process, so specifying the version of mscorlib is completely redundant information.

Thanks,
Marcelo

"Lee Alexander" <lee@No_Spam_Please_Digita.com> wrote in message
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Why does Assembly.Load allow this:

Assembly.Load( "mscorlib" );

if you try the following it fails as expected:
Assembly.Load( "System" );

Since it should be (for framework 1.1):
Assembly.Load( "System, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" );

I would have thought you would have had to do the same for mscorlib.

Assembly.Load( "mscorlib, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" );

Anyone shed some light?
Regards
Lee