If the assembly in question is a library, I want to be able to load it into memory before creating a class out of it. This is for a system that sends messages of various types over MSMQ in serialized XML with no way of guaranteeing that the listener will already have the assembly loaded.
The only assemblies we could guarantee would be running are the executable and the messaging library (aka GOURMET.) Since message types are defined in the executable, GOURMET, and third-party libraries, we're trying to avoid trying to load either GOURMET or the executable at runtime (when they are guaranteed to already be loaded.) --Jekke -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Means Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 4:42 PM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Is this System.Assembly an executable or a library? System.IO.Path.GetExtension(Assembly.GetModules()[0].FullyQualifiedName) would work similarly. >From a practical perspective, I'm not sure there's much difference between an EXE assembly and a DLL assembly, except that the EXE contains a shim to kick off the .Net core and start the EXE's Main() function. Out of curiousity, why do you need to know? On 1/4/06, David Lanouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I doubt that this is the best way, but... > > if (Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location.EndsWith(".dll")) > Console.WriteLine("Dll"); > else > Console.WriteLine("exe"); > > > > > > On 1/4/06, Jekke Bladt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All-- > > > > Is there a straightforward way to determine from an Assembly object > > whether it is an executable or a library? > > > > TIA > > > > --Jekke > > > > =================================== > > This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(r) http://www.develop.com > > > > View archives and manage your subscription(s) at > http://discuss.develop.com > > > > > -- > ______________________________ > - David Lanouette > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > =================================== > This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(r) http://www.develop.com > > View archives and manage your subscription(s) at > http://discuss.develop.com > -- Eric Means [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.randomtree.org/eric/ =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(r) http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
