Problems loading an assembly

[Aashish Patil]

Hi,

My code is trying to load an assembly using

Assembly.Load(string assemblyName);

Assume that the current executing assembly is called
Test.dll

The following code works fine
string assName = "Test.dll"
Assembly.Load(assName);

While the following fails consistently
Assembly.Load(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Full Name);

The second piece of code always throws an exception saying
that assembly was not found. Note that FullName also
includes attributes such as Culture,Version, ... I wonder
why that should make a difference.

Any ideas?

Thanks
regards,
Aashish

[Alexander Wehrli]

Hi,

This is because the FullName gives you a string like this:
trlcxml, Version=1.0.1705.13332, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null

So this isn't really the name of your assembly =D

What you can do is take the first part of the string (in my case trlcxml)
--> this is the name of your dll (without extension). Or (what I actually
prefer), you create an own class that contains either the assembly AND for
example a FileInfo Object of your assembly.

Regards kahuna

"Aashish Patil" wrote:

Hi,

My code is trying to load an assembly using

Assembly.Load(string assemblyName);

Assume that the current executing assembly is called
Test.dll

The following code works fine
string assName = "Test.dll"
Assembly.Load(assName);

While the following fails consistently
Assembly.Load(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Full Name);

The second piece of code always throws an exception saying
that assembly was not found. Note that FullName also
includes attributes such as Culture,Version, ... I wonder
why that should make a difference.

Any ideas?

Thanks
regards,
Aashish

[Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP]]

Gents,

According to MSDN, the Load method of the Assembly class SHOULD accept the
long form of the assembly name. To quote the MSDN topic:

<Quote>
Assembly SampleAssembly;
// You must supply a valid fully qualified assembly name here.
SampleAssembly = Assembly.Load("Assembly text name, Version, Culture,
PublicKeyToken");
</Quote>

The original poster should use the Fusion Log Viewer (fuslogvw.exe) utility
to examine which locations the loader probes for the assembly - the thing
might be the loader is not aware of the location where the assembly in
question resides.

--
Sincerely,
Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP]
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"Alexander Wehrli" <Al*************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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Hi,

This is because the FullName gives you a string like this:
trlcxml, Version=1.0.1705.13332, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null

So this isn't really the name of your assembly =D

What you can do is take the first part of the string (in my case trlcxml)
--> this is the name of your dll (without extension). Or (what I actually
prefer), you create an own class that contains either the assembly AND for
example a FileInfo Object of your assembly.

Regards kahuna

"Aashish Patil" wrote:

Hi,

My code is trying to load an assembly using

Assembly.Load(string assemblyName);

Assume that the current executing assembly is called
Test.dll

The following code works fine
string assName = "Test.dll"
Assembly.Load(assName);

While the following fails consistently
Assembly.Load(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Full Name);

The second piece of code always throws an exception saying
that assembly was not found. Note that FullName also
includes attributes such as Culture,Version, ... I wonder
why that should make a difference.

Any ideas?

Thanks
regards,
Aashish

[Aashish Patil]

Hi,

Apparently, the Assembly.Load method needs the 'filename' of the
assembly and not the actually assembly name. The docs for this methods
seemed a bit misleading. Anyway, got it to work by using

string codeBase = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase
string filename = Path.GetFileName(codeBase);

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Aashish
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[Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP]]

I'd then recommend that you use the Assembly.LoadFromFile method.

--
Sincerely,
Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP]
Bring the power of unit testing to the VS .NET IDE today!
http://www.x-unity.net/teststudio.aspx

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Hi,

Apparently, the Assembly.Load method needs the 'filename' of the
assembly and not the actually assembly name. The docs for this methods
seemed a bit misleading. Anyway, got it to work by using

string codeBase = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase
string filename = Path.GetFileName(codeBase);

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Aashish
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