Sam, >I have an installer program that needs to know whether PIAs are already >installed in the GAC so that I won't install them twice. So the question is >how can we programmatically tell whether the GAC contains a particular >assembly?
Well, one way is to use the Fusion APIs. That way, you don't actually have to load the assembly. I have a sample of that at http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/eng/samples/misc.asp >The third article says that if you want to load an assembly from the GAC as >opposed to just from the app directory, you need to call >Assembly.LoadWithPartialName rather than Assembly.Load. That's true if you only have a partial assembly name. If you know the whole thing, including name, culture, version and public key token, you should use Assembly.Load(). Mattias === Mattias Sjögren [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
