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Joan Venge
Joan Venge

Reputation: 331540

How to load an .exe as a .NET assembly?

Can I just use?:

Assembly.LoadFile

Not sure if this is the way to do this?

But when I try that approach, it throws a Could not load file or assembly "CustomControlLib" or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 15

Views: 16443

Answers (4)

Sebastian.Belczyk
Sebastian.Belczyk

Reputation: 885

If you use Assembly.LoadFrom() dependencies will be loaded from the directory where assembly is located.

Assembly.LoadFile() is ignoring all other DLLs and exe files in the same folder.

Upvotes: 4

Grant Thomas
Grant Thomas

Reputation: 45058

You will need to make sure that the dependencies are also loaded into the app domain. If they aren't located automatically, you can subscribe to AppDomain.AssemblyResolve in order to find and load assemblies manually if needs be.

For example:

private Assembly AssemblyEventHandler(object sender, ResolveEventArgs args)
{
    return locatedAssembly;
}

Also, I would consider using Assembly.LoadFrom, particularly after reading this which has a strong assertion by nobugz and links to some good reading (all dated but ought to still be withstanding for the most part.)

Upvotes: 8

Achim
Achim

Reputation: 15722

Yes, you can load a .Net exe the same way as you would load a Dll. The error you get is caused by dependencies of your exe. Make sure that the those dependencies can be found, i.e. are in your assembly search path.

Upvotes: 3

Mark Cidade
Mark Cidade

Reputation: 100047

Yes, you can use Assembly.LoadFile(). Check your path.

Upvotes: 0

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