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Assemblies are collections of compiled .Net types and resources grouped into a logical and physical unit (in the form of a .dll file or .exe file).

Assemblies are collections of compiled .Net types and resources grouped into a logical and physical unit (in the form of a .dll file or a .exe file - which has an entry point).

If a .exe is a .NET assembly then it also contains a CLR header as a data block inside the PE header.

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Loading an assembly by Bytes loses the location

I want to load the assembly via the following var loadedAssembly = Assembly.Load(File.ContentsAsBytes); the File.ContentAsBytes returns the dll as a byte[], via the following System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes("dll location"); The issue is the loaded…
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404 on Controllers in External Assemblies

I am having trouble resolving 404 responses in my Asp.Net MVC 4 project. It's built in VS2012 targeting 4.5. I have pre-compiled views and controllers built into stand-alone DLLs. I am able to dynamically load the DLLs and inspect them from my core…
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Using Precompiled .NET Assembly DLL in Mono?

We're currently testing Mono to see if our .NET DLLs will work for customers on Linux. Our DLLs provide components for Windows Forms. I placed the DLLs in the Debug directory, added the references, and created a class deriving from a Windows Form.…
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Automatic assembly version number management in VS2008

I have a VS2008 project written in c# with a number of assemblies. I'd like to have a simple way of managing the version numbers between all of the different assemblies and a way to automatically increment the build number and have that saved into…
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Static constructor for the whole assembly

I have many entry points in my assembly and I want some initialization code to be executed once per AppDomain prior to running any other code from this assembly. What would be the best way to do it? One solution I see is to have a class with static…
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Accessing unregistered COM objects from python via a registered TLB

I have three pieces of code that i'm working with at the moment: A closed source application (Main.exe) A closed source VB COM object implemented as a dll (comobj.dll) Code that I am developing in Python comobj.dll hosts a COM object (lets say,…
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Which assemblies conflict in "found conflict between different versions"?

I am getting "found conflict between different versions" from one of my projects. How do I find out which assemblies are actually in conflict?
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Updating a DLL in a Production ASP.NET Web Site bin folder

I want to update a class library (a single DLL file) in a production web application. This web app is pre-compiled (published). I read an answer on StackOverflow (sorry, can't seem to find it anymore because the Search function does not work very…
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When should we not create Assembly's strong name? What are the disadvantages of "strong named assembly"?

I have a project, i.e. library.exe. In this I have referenced an assembly (logging.dll ver 1.0.3.0) and I have given this assembly a strong name. Now suppose I changed a method in logging.dll and made version 1.0.4.0. Now when I copy/replaced the…
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Pros/Cons of using an assembly as a license file?

I was initially going to use a signed serialized xml file to store license details. In planning, more and more has moved into this "license file" which will allow for us to distribute a single application and control available functions via the…
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What is the best way to use assembly versioning attributes?

The AssemblyVersion and AssemblyFileVersion attributes are the built-in way of handling version numbers for .NET assemblies. While the framework provides the ability to have the least significant parts of a version number (build and revision, in…
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ILMerge and localized resource assemblies

We have an application whose structure when compiled looks something like this: Foo nb-NO Text.resources.dll sv-SE Text.resources.dll Bar.dll Foo.exe Text.dll Is it possible to use ILMerge on this? How would you do that?
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Why doesn't fusion log binding errors?

I have added the following to the registry key Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Fusion: EnableLog DWORD 1 LogFailures DWORD 1 If I start an ASP.NET web site from Visual Studio it throws a Parser Error: Could not load file or…
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Why do WinRT framework assemblies have the same fully qualified name as their (different) non-WinRT counterparts?

This is really just more of a curiosity type question. I deal with looking up types across assemblies and raw IL. Windows 8 really puts a kink in something I'm implementing though. I've found that WinRT and non-WinRT framework assemblies share the…
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Read AssemblyFileVersion from AssemblyInfo post-compile

How can one read the AssemblyFileVersion, or its components AssemblyFileMajorVersion, AssemblyFileMinorVersion, AssemblyFileBuildNumber, AssemblyFileRevision, within the .csproj, following compilation? I have tried the following which pulls the…
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