C# - Dynamically Loading .NET Assemblies?
May 25, 2009
I am writing a program and I want the program to support plugins. I created an interface that the program must implement. I am using the following code from my main program to call the plugin:
Dim asm As Assembly = Assembly.LoadFrom(ff.FullName)
' Get the type
Dim myType As System.Type = asm.GetType(asm.GetName.Name + "." + asm.GetName.Name)
' If the type is null then we try again without the root namespace name
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I set this property from my main program and everything works. Except, after a while, m_PanelObject gets set to Nothing for some odd reason. I'm not setting it to Nothing anywhere in my program and there is no place in the plugin code that sets it to Nothing.
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May 24, 2010
We've built a small component which takes an Id, looks up an entry in the database for an assembly/namespace/class, and dynamically loads an instance of the class that we're after. It has been working fine up until now, but when running this code in VS 2010, it's failing.
Private Function AssemblyLoaded(ByVal assemblyFile As String) As Assembly
Dim assemblies() As Assembly = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies
For Each asmb As Assembly In assemblies
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But it feels dirty. Is there a better way of checking if an assembly is already loaded, and handing that back to the caller? Are the issues above specific to .NET 4.0 or Visual Studio 2010? I haven't tried this outside the IDE as it requires fairly significant configuration.
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Dec 22, 2009
Do you know any other alternative for dynamic assemblies loading? Other than the method below:
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Mar 17, 2010
We have a large application that implements "scripting" (i.e, dynamically compiled user code that can include user-defined .dll references).
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Apr 1, 2010
I just realized I used my non-partner account the first time, and I want to make sure I receive priority support. In addition, I found out more about my problem and made a much clearer example.Basically I'm having problems getting a dynamically compiled vb.net "script" to find external references (even though they are being added by fully qualified path). I also tried adding /libpath to my compiler options, and still it cannot find the assemblies.[URL]..
And here is a reference to my original post (with not-so-easy to understand code snippets):[URL]..
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Apr 2, 2012
I am loading an Assembly using Assembly.LoadFrom() as the assemblies are located in a different path from Application Base directory.
Dim oAssembly As Assembly = _
Assembly.LoadFrom("C:\MyFolder\" + ddlXlate.SelectedItem.ToString() + ".dll")
And I consume a Type from that assembly without any problem:
oXML = CType(oAssembly.CreateInstance(sBaseType + ".XlateContainer"), _
XlateBase.XlateContainer)
However, the problem occurs when I try to use a Type from this assembly from within another method like the one below:
oComboBox.DataSource = _
[Enum].GetValues(Type.GetType(sType + "+ItemEnum," + sAssemblyName))
sAssemblyName is the one I loaded using LoadFrom() actually. After it said it cannot find the assembly, I used AssemblyResolve event which solved my problem :Subscribing AssemblyResolve event :
AddHandler AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AssemblyResolve, _
AddressOf MyResolveEventHandler
Event Handler Method:
Private Shared Function MyResolveEventHandler(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal args As ResolveEventArgs) As Assembly
Return Assembly.LoadFrom("C:\PSIOBJ\" + args.Name + ".dll")
End Function
And I thought maybe the error occurs because it cannot find a dependent assembly defined in assembly manifest file I loaded using LoadFrom() already but when I checked the args.Name, I saw it was trying to load same assembly and after that it worked without any problem. So basically a type in the loaded assembly cannot be found before the event adding change.
My old code was using AppDomain.CurrentDomain.Load() and Assembly.Load() methods and they were working fine without the AssemblyResolve event. I was able to reach types in dynamically loaded Assembly from every where within the same AppDomain.
LoadFrom() can find dependencies automatically within the same requested assembly path and that couldn't be problem as everything this dll needs was there. So at first it looked like a AppDomain problem to me as it looks like it seems it can reach assemblies from Load context instead of LoadFrom context and I am now using LoadFrom context.But now it seems I should pass oAssembly instance evertwhere to use any type from the loaded assembly?Doesn't it load the assembly where I can reach it everywhere (same AppDomain) using simple Type.GetType(...) method?
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Nov 20, 2009
i've read this somewhere before and was able to make it work, unfortunatelyi lost my sample codes and couldn't recall some parts, anyway, here's what i'm trying to doi have a couple of DLL with same methods and properties, instead of referencing them directlyto my main program i have a common interface which i have reference to in both main program and DLLs (implements), the main program is suppose to load whichever DLL it requires (so i was thinking of making it more like plug able), here's what i have so farINTERFACE CLASS
Code:
Imports System.Reflection
Public Interface MyInterface
[code]......
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Aug 26, 2011
I have an asp.net web app that allows users to customize some GUI aspects (such as font color, add a custom logo etc). This information is stored in the user profile database. I have a css file that populates font colors etc. The main page, loads the users profile from the database, and customizes the page accordingly.Aside from having each label with its own "font-color=", how can I display the CSS elements, based on the user profile information returned from the database?
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Sep 16, 2011
I have a UserControl.ascx which essentially outputs the Name and Email of the user currently logged in (stored in session variables, for the record) at the top of every page on my website. Said control is currently called by Site.Master using <%Html.RenderPartial("UserControl")%>.
It works fine when I log in for the first time and my details are displayed correctly, but when I log out and try to log in again something strange happens...
The Control itself tests the condition Session("auth"), which my controller sets to true upon authenticating a user and which it forces to false when the logout button is pressed. All session variables are cleared upon logging out.
(For the record, my user control used to check Request.IsAuthenticated rather than Session("auth") to determine the current Session State. The same issue arised.)
The problem is that when I try to log in as a different user, instead of showing the new user's information in the header, nothing appears beside Name: and Email: (see code below). I suspect this is because UserControl.ascx is not updating its state.
Ideally, I'd like a solution which would force UserControl to check Session variables every time a page is loaded. Is there a clean way to achieve this?
<%@ Control Language="VB" AutoEventWireup = "false" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl" %>
<%-- The following line works around an ASP.NET compiler warning --%>
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Mar 25, 2009
I want to load picture dynamically within VB.NET and the following code does not work due to 'loadpicture' not existing in VB.NET.
picturebox.image=Loadpicture("tick.jpg")
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Oct 9, 2010
how to Load Image in Crystal report Dynamically?Im creating students id in crystal report.the image is accessible through path "C:mysoftwarepicturesstudent001.jpg"
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Apr 22, 2010
I have a created a user control. This user control I dynamically load on a page inside Telerik Panelbar control. I have done all necessary coding to save the viewstate and load this dynamically created usercontrol every time page loads.On this User control I have a asp panel. By default this panel is invisible. When user clicks a button on this user control panel is made visible. On page load of this user control I populate all the controls on this panel.Everything works fine if I dont load this use control dynamically but when I load this user control dynamically and if I make panel visible by default then only all fields on the panel are populated. But if I make by default invisible and on button click make panel visible none of the text boxes or comboboxes are populated. I populate comboboxes on page load of the userControl but inbetween postbacks all the comboboxes on the user control loose data.[code]...
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Jun 13, 2011
In my .aspx file I have:
<%@ assembly src="extensions.vb" %>
<%@ assembly src="debug.vb" %>
[code].....
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Sep 20, 2011
I have started working on a legacy project (ASP.NET 1.1) which was done in an old machine (which I dont have access to). And I am unaware of the development environment settings used for building this project.
Nonetheless, I am able to build the project and deploy it all well from my machine (I created the full development enviroment locally). In my machine everything works great.But some screens where one of the assembly dlls (third party dlls) are used do crash on any machine other than mine! They probably do net get the proper assembly (with matching version or something), even though when I have put all the assemblies in bin (and used the same files while adding references to the project). .NET runtime probably tries to find them in the GAC of the other computers? Or probably in my system itself it loads from GAC and not from the bin? How could I know all this? The question is it runs perfectly fine on my machine, where the assemblies are at both places - in bin and in GAC.
I am lost what I should do to so that no matter which machine I deploy the project, it should always look in bin only! Also, I dont want to change the code in any way because its a legacy code and has been working all right since ages! Just some settings e.g. maching.config or soemthing?
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Mar 30, 2012
I am trying to get all assemblies in CurrentDomain using AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies() to write their FullName into a DropDownList, however if I don't instantiate them, they are not seen in returned array from GetAssemblies() in CurrentDomain.They are all added as Reference and in Reference folder of the solution. Only time I can get them from the GetAssemblies() is when I first instantiate them.How to overcome this problem with an easy and more generic way instead of instantiate them everytime when I add new Assembly, etc.Due to company policy, I have to obfuscate some parts of the images: All the assembilies are referenced in Reference folder:
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Sep 19, 2009
I have a windows forms Application using DCOM to connect to another server in order to retrieve data from a database. The program works perfectly fine on my develeopment box both inside of and outside of the idea.However it throws an exception on my test box: System.Exception.... TYPE_E_CANTLOADLIBRARY. The error happens when accessing a property of on the the public DCOM classes. The property holds an instance of one of the private classes for the DCOM. I've compared the registries and all the relevant entries seem to be the same. When I compared the dumps I noticed that System.Config and System.XML werent loaded on the test machine, even though they are installed and appear to be in the GAC.
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Mar 16, 2009
compare to compile .NET assemblies?
For example I have HelloWorld.dll (1.0.0.0) and HelloWorld.dll (2.0.0.0), and I want to compare differences how can I do this?
I know I can use .NET Reflector and use the Assembly Diff plugin. Are there any other good tools out there to do this?
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Jul 18, 2010
I'm deploying a vb 2005 application that references crystal report XI release 2 components. How do i install these components to the gac? The client machine does not have gacutil and i don't know how to use msi to do the job. I have researched the web for answers without success.
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Sep 16, 2010
If I try to call my extension method which is defined like this:
Module LinqExtensions
<System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Extension()> _
Public Function ToSortableBindingList(Of TSource)(ByVal source As IEnumerable(Of TSource))
[code].....
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Dec 18, 2011
I thought I would practice using reflection by building an Object Browser similar to what's in VS2010.
The reflection part is easy enough, but I'm can't find any means of determining where all of the assemblies are installed. On my machine (Win 7) the GAC would seem to be located at C:Windowsassembly.
However, 4.0 assemblies look to be located at C:WindowsMicrosoft.NETassembly in either GAC_32 or GAC_MSIL.
VS Object Browser obviously knows where to look, you can even filter on "All Components" or select a framework version.
But when I look at the Object Browser in VS, I find that it lists assemblies from several different locations: For example...
CODE:
How does VS know to list these assemblies? Is there some registry key I'm missing that defines all of these locations?
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Feb 1, 2010
Ok, I've read every question on here about strong named assemblies and just want to clarify something. First though, from what I've read, GAC aside, strong named assemblies prevent a malicious 3rd party changing and impersonating your code. It'd be great to have some links to some real world examples of this kind of spoofing that happened pre strong named assemblies. If security or the GAC are not a concern, It seems that it's still advisable to strong name assemblies because:
(A) Clients who have strong named assemblies can only reference your assemblies if they are signed.
(B) Clients who do not have strong named assemblies can reference your assembly whether it's signed or not.
Is that a fair analysis?
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Sep 2, 2010
I have two executables that access a DLL containing Data Access Layer objects Each exe can have a different config containing info on server and database name, connection string etc.How do I pass the config info to the DAL objects?
Obviously I can pass the config strings to the DAL objects every time I instanciate one, but that seems messy and repetitive as every class in the DAL will require Properties for the Config strings..if there is a way for the instanciated DAL objects to read some properties from the calling object without me having to pass them explicitly?
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Jan 7, 2010
I've recently reorganized some files on my current project and renamed the namespaces. Now whenever I try to reference a method from an object that I've instantiated I get told by the debugger that I need to recompile any assemblies that reference that method.
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Jan 8, 2010
I have developed an application that creates Excel and Word documents, hence, Interop.Word.dll and Interop.Excell.dl asre being included into the installation package.May I redistribute these dll's with my application package? And how does the Developers Licenses work?I live in SA and have heard that the redistribution rights may be different.
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Jan 8, 2010
I created a .net assembly, which works perfectly if I create before runtime. But i'd like to know if it's possible to reference at runtime. The reason is because i'm creating an application which will be used in several servers, and it will be reference that same .net assembly, but the .dll file will be in different location per server. I know that when I reference before runtime, the .net assembly it will be pointing to is from the original (or at least that's what I think).
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Sep 19, 2009
How to set an application to check their reference assemblies first locally(root folder)then if fails globally(GAC)
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Mar 29, 2010
I'm trying to reduce as much as I can my VB.Net assembly side, and I just figured out that all variable names were kept unchanged in the actual assembly. Since I tend to use pretty long var names, it adds up and, by running dotfuscator on my assembly, I could shrink it by as much as 10%.
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Apr 17, 2012
I'm wondering if it's possible to check in the application start if the system has the correct assemblies installed to my application to work?Let me explain, i have a application that uses several reports, and to solve the problem of the first time open report, I run in another thread a dummy report. This works fine if the user has the crystal reports installed but if it doesn't the app stops working.
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Mar 21, 2012
As an OSS library author, I've always tried to make my stuff CLS compliant. But MS doesn't make this easy. They often put you in catch-22 situations, such as the following:You cannot have a protected variable differing only in case from the public property.You cannot have protected or public variables starting in an underscore or 'm_'. If you want to make a class really extensible, you often need to have protected variables matching public properties. Your least ugly exit is to add a suffix to the variable, like "Var" or "Value". That's nasty and unacceptable to me. I like clean code.I know of no .NET languages that don't support variables starting in an underscore, and I've used them in many places where the variable needs to be visible to subclasses.
I'm tired of the warnings, and I'm planning on turning off CLS compliance at the assembly level on my 30+ C# libraries.Are there any actual problems with turning off CLS compliance on libraries? Any real problems with doing this? Microsoft has issued unheedable guidance on software for decades, with less that 5% of it being worth the bytes it was encoded in. I can't find any evidence that this best practice has any real effect on anything. But, to be careful, I'm checking. And no, this is not a duplicate of the inverse of this question: Any reason not to mark a DLL as CLSCompliant?I'm looking for actual results and effects here, not the advice of a MS intern. For example, if IronPython, IronRuby, or F# are unable to read or write a variable starting with an underscore, that's an effect, although it would only cause a problem for users subclassing certain objects. If a language or tool is completely unable to use an assembly unless it is marked CLS compliant, now that's a big deal.
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May 24, 2011
I'm working a business layer (separate assembly) that will contain various business entities used in multiple client applications. One of the client applications is a WCF app that will need to serialize these entities. In order to properly serialize the entities, metadata for data contracts or for XML serialization must be added, but the serialization requirements may vary across applications.
Clearly I need the metadata separated from the class definition. So how do I add metadata to my entities for each separate application?
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