I’ve copied and pasted this from my own post on it: The format of a .NET dll is: PE header CLR header CLR metadata CLR IL code Native data PE header The PE header is the portable executable header that all Win32 applications and libraries have, and instructs Windows what to do with the file. … Read more
The .NET Framework defers loading assemblies into the current AppDomain until they’re needed. For example, if you call into a third-party library only from SomeMethod(), the third-party DLL normally won’t be loaded until the first time SomeMethod() runs. AppDomain.GetAssemblies() gives you all assemblies which have already been loaded into the current AppDomain. BuildManager.GetReferencedAssemblies() (This method … Read more
Step1: Unload the referencing project targeting .NET 2.0 Step2: Right click the unloaded project and select edit from context menu Step3: Add <SpecificVersion>true</SpecificVersion> to the reference. Below is a sample from my repro solution: <ProjectReference Include=”..\HighFX\HighFX.csproj”> <Project>{8DD71CAF-BEF7-40ED-9DD0-25033CD8009D}</Project> <Name>HighFX</Name> <SpecificVersion>true</SpecificVersion> </ProjectReference> Step4: Reload the project. Now your should be able to build within the Visual Studio … Read more
I’m Mike’s coworker, and we worked out a solution. The type X is defined in his assembly, that is only in the GAC. Even though his ASP.NET web appplication did have a reference, it was failing to load from the GAC only for this UserControl. The rest of the application worked as expected. We confirmed … Read more
Namespaces affect name resolution only. Namespaces do not imply any sort of storage, nor do namespaces determine which DLLs contain your code. Namespaces allow you to group related things together under a logical name even though they may physically reside in different DLLs. An assembly is basically just a DLL or EXE file. It contains … Read more
In my case it was a project defined using Target Framework: “.NET Framework 4.0 Client Profile ” that tried to reference dll projects defined using Target Framework: “.NET Framework 4.0”. Once I changed the project settings to use Target Framework: “.NET Framework 4.0” everything was built nicely. Right Click the project->Properties->Application->Target Framework
Some good information from this article on Suzanne Cook’s blog on MSDN (posted 2003-05-30): When to Change File/Assembly Versions First of all, file versions and assembly versions need not coincide with each other. I recommend that file versions change with each build. But, don’t change assembly versions with each build just so that you can … Read more
There are 2 parts of your question: How to configure solutions to build assemblies/EXE into folders of your choice – this is configured through properties of the project in VS (project properties -> build -> output path). Also value of check “copy local” property on each reference. How to load assemblies files from non-default locations … Read more
No. The best comparison would be with a Java ARchive (Jar) file. Java uses packages to control the namespace, and is very similar to C#’s Namespaces. Here is how I’d compare the environments Java .Net ==== ==== Class Class Package Namespace Jar Assembly
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x0w2664k.aspx 1) Allways check msdn first. Mixed mode means that the assembly can run managed and unmanaged code. 2) Setups for 32-bit Windows (.NET Framework 4.0) http://system.data.sqlite.org/sqlite-netFx40-setup-bundle-x86-2010-1.0.74.0.exe You kinda answered that question yourself “My project that is going to use this library is all .NET 4 which will be compiled to x86.”