Reflection / Dependencies / Remoting

[Björn Jansson]

Hi,
I have made a "shell" for Windows applications. The shell contains auto
update, authentication and other things that are common for applications. The
shell can contain 1 or more applications.

Each application is a plugin and resides in a separate assembly. The
applications are loaded with Reflection into the shell.

The file structure is as follows:
ShellApp Folder (contains Shell.exe)
Plugin Folder (contains all the applications)

Here comes my question:
I have made an application that uses remoting. The (client) application
consist of two assemblys: App.dll and CommonRemoting.dll. In
CommonRemoting.dll I have put the classes that are in common between the
server and client. App.dll has a dependency to CommonRemotin.dll.
My problem rises when I try to do remoting. Since Shell.exe has loaded
App.dll by remoting it seems as App.dll can't find CommonRemoting.dll as it
should.
It works when App.dll connects to the server but when the server sends a
custom object (that is specified in CommonRemoting) I get an exception.

If I put Shell.exe, App.dll and CommonRemoting.dll in the same directory
then everything works, but I really don't want to do that.

Has anyone any ideas on how to solve my problem?

Best regards
Björn Jansson