So how does assembly load work

by alski 27. March 2008 18:52
Cameron and myself were wondering what actually happens in various scenarios and so we came up with some Unit Tests. What we found
  • With local dlls it tries several paths
    • bin/Debug/TestAssembly.DLL.
    • bin/Debug/TestAssembly/TestAssembly.DLL.
    • bin/Debug/TestAssembly.EXE.
    • bin/Debug/TestAssembly/TestAssembly.EXE.
    • You need a full strong name to load from the GAC all four parts
  • You can get a strong name by attempting to load a dll locally i.e.
if you have a local dll with a strongname you can attempt to load it without a full strongname, and the local dll will be read to get the strongname and then the dll can be read FROM THE GAC Yes, this last item seems a little insane, but please try the unit test if you don’t believe me. Please let me know if you can think of more test scenarios to add.

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