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Tamschi
Tamschi

Reputation: 1140

How do I load an application with dlls from memory into an AppDomain and execute it?

I have several streams with an assembly and its used dlls. How can I load them into an AppDomain and execute the main assembly? I'd rather not save the files to disk if it can be avoided.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 843

Answers (1)

Bharath K
Bharath K

Reputation: 2119

You can use obtain the assembly through the following mechanism.

Assembly myAssembly = Assembly.Load(<your raw file stream>);

You can register for the following event and handle the same to serve requested types coming from your custom assemblies:

AppDomain.CurrentDomain.TypeResolve += new ResolveEventHandler(CurrentDomain_TypeResolve);

static Assembly CurrentDomain_TypeResolve(object sender, ResolveEventArgs args)
    {
        Type  resolvedType =  myAssembly.GetType( args.Name, false);
    }

Unfortunately any type loaded in your program would end up here, so you might want to build in some caching mechanism to store type info

Upvotes: 1

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