Assembly Display Names

RE: Assembly Display Names

Linda Dai — Sun, 29 Jun 2003 08:04:00 GMT

It is great to read your blogs. It is very informational! Thanks for your effort. Could you please say something more about canonicalizing process in Fusion? Thanks, --L.

RE: Assembly Display Names

Suzanne — Tue, 01 Jul 2003 06:26:00 GMT

Thanks! What exactly would you like to know about the canonicalizing process? Mscorlib.dll's APIs that return an assembly display name should all give the official, canonicalized one. Basically, Fusion pastes together the different components in the official, 'good' way, filtering out inappropriate stuff.

RE: Assembly Display Names

Dave — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:39:00 GMT

Is there a method that will take as arguments the difrerent components of an assembly name and return the displayname? And is there one that will do the inverse operation? This will help in handling AssemblyResolve events where we want to change one or more components of the assembly display name to a different form of it (e.g. changing a version number or culture). Thanks. And keep blogging Dave

RE: Assembly Display Names

Dave — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 07:03:00 GMT

RE: Assembly Display Names

Suzanne — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 03:25:00 GMT

Yes, set those properties on an AssemblyName object, and then get its FullName property. Going the other direction is supported starting in v2.0 - the AssemblyName(String) constructor takes an assembly display name, and then the resulting AssemblyName will have the parsed properties.

Binding to .NET Frameworks Assemblies

Suzanne Cook's .NET CLR Loader Notes — Sat, 14 Feb 2004 03:45:00 GMT

Assembly Identity

Suzanne Cook's .NET CLR Loader Notes — Sat, 14 Feb 2004 03:50:00 GMT

Switching to the Load Context

Suzanne Cook's .NET CLR Loader Notes — Sat, 14 Feb 2004 03:54:00 GMT

Avoid Partial Binds

Suzanne Cook's .NET CLR Loader Notes — Sat, 14 Feb 2004 03:55:00 GMT

Using Type.GetType(typeName)

Suzanne Cook's .NET CLR Loader Notes — Sat, 14 Feb 2004 03:57:00 GMT

re: Assembly Display Names

Mark — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 23:13:00 GMT

In .NET 1.0, in which scenarios will Assembly.FullName return a string that doesn't contain version, culture, or publicKeyToken?

re: Assembly Display Names

Suzanne — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 23:12:00 GMT

In v1.0, there was a race condition where the full string may not have been set, if multiple threads were asking for the same assembly's display name at the same time, if it had not been requested before. (The first thread would get the full string, while threads losing the race may get a string missing one or more of the public key token, culture and version.) This has been fixed in v1.0 SP3, and v1.1 or later.

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Brad Abrams — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:50:00 GMT

re: Assembly Display Names

anand mathew — Mon, 17 May 2004 14:17:00 GMT

I am trying to use the function Assembly.gettype. But my system does not show any such function. Please let me know what is hapening.

re: Assembly Display Names

Suzanne — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 21:49:00 GMT

It's System.Reflection.Assembly.GetType() in mscorlib.dll, and these are the different overloads, below. See MSDN for more info.

Type GetType(String name)
Type GetType(String name, bool throwOnError)
Type GetType(String name, bool throwOnError, bool ignoreCase)
Type GetType()

Assembly.Load(AssemblyName)

Suzanne Cook's .NET CLR Loader Notes — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 23:23:00 GMT

LoadFrom's Second Bind

Suzanne Cook's .NET CLR Loader Notes — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:17:00 GMT

Versioning/Deploying Unmanaged Files

Suzanne Cook's .NET CLR Loader Notes — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:45:00 GMT

re: Assembly Display Names

dirk — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:16:11 GMT

Sorry Suzanne,
I think the whole assembly concept of .NET sucks. I spend hours trying to load a stupid assembly after I have completed all the hard work in coding it. I just keep getting Exceptions concerning security access (after having given the ASP.NET User full access to the relevent directory). In the end I give up and write elaborate switch statements because I cannot run Type.GetType(classname) successfully.
This just messes up the whole point of Reflection. Why make security so complex that programmers spend more time trying to evade it than dealing with it, because it is so confusing?
Windows and .NET security derail the joy of coding with .NET. They are such a headache!

re: Assembly Display Names

Nicole — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:52:03 GMT

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Assembly.Load(byte[] bytes)

Daniel Moldovan — Mon, 22 May 2006 11:36:28 GMT

I'm generating an assembly using CSharpCodeProvider compile method. I use in my code, in another project (not using reflection) Types from this generated assembly. In this second project I'm loading the generated assembly unsing Assembly.Load(byte[] bytes) method. But when the code want to load Types from this assembly .net tries to load again the generated assembly from the file system. Why? This assembly is already loaded by the previous call to Assembly.Load(). Can anybody help me?
Thanks,

Daniel

Versioning/Deploying Unmanaged Files

Suzanne Cook's .NET CLR Notes — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:45:28 GMT

An unmanaged dll can be wrapped in a managed assembly by adding it as a file of a multi-module assembly.

Load(AssemblyName)

Suzanne Cook's .NET CLR Notes — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:47:38 GMT

Calling Load(AssemblyName) is not necessarily the same as calling Load(String). If the AssemblyName.CodeBase

LoadFrom's Second Bind

Suzanne Cook's .NET CLR Notes — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:07:32 GMT

Pre-v2, when you load an assembly by path through Fusion (LoadFrom(), ExecuteAssembly(), etc.), it can

Binding to .NET Frameworks Assemblies

Suzanne Cook's .NET CLR Notes — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:12:02 GMT

By "Frameworks assemblies," I mean the assemblies that ship with the CLR. But, I'm not counting mscorlib.dll

Assembly Identity

Suzanne Cook's .NET CLR Notes — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:12:22 GMT

There are two types of assembly identity that the loader deals with: bind-time and after bind-time. The

Switching to the Load Context

Suzanne Cook's .NET CLR Notes — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:20:51 GMT

So, after checking out the binding context options , you've decided to switch your app to use the Load

Avoid Partial Binds

Suzanne Cook's .NET CLR Notes — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:25:45 GMT

A partial bind is when only part of the assembly display name is given when loading an assembly. Assembly.LoadWithPartialName()

Using Type.GetType(typeName)

Suzanne Cook's .NET CLR Notes — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:27:15 GMT

If no assembly is specified, Type.GetType() will only look in the calling assembly and then mscorlib.dll

re: Assembly Display Names

Kevin Burton — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:19:36 GMT

I have an assembly call it MyAssembly.dll. In it there is a type under the namespace MyCompany.Service.MyServices that is MyService. What is the full CLR type name for this type?

Thank you.

Kevin

re: Assembly Display Names

Ishtiaque Hussain — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:34:00 GMT

Is there any way (SomeMethod) I can find an assembly's fully qualified name from just it's name given as a string?

Let me explain my question with an example:

string DisplayName = "Microsoft.Msagl";

string FullyQualifiedName = SomeMethod (DisplayName);

and FullyQualifiedName would hold:

"Microsoft.Msagl,Version=1.2.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"

Thanks in advance.

re: Assembly Display Names

Ishtiaque Hussain — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:19:00 GMT

Hi everyone,

Thanks for posting my feedback. I got a solution to my problem and sharing with you:

The following code actually finds the fully qualified name, if the file location is provided:

Assembly asm = Assembly.LoadFrom("C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Pex\\bin\\Microsoft.Msagl.dll");

Dataflow.BasicBlock("Microsoft.Msagl.Anchor," + asm.FullName.ToString());

The Assembly "asm.FullName" gives the fully qualified name. (Ignore Dataflow.BasicBlock: this some library that I was working on)

I got this helpful piece code from:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/OutputAnAssemblyVersionFullyQualifiedNameFromTheCommandLine.aspx

Thanks.

--Ishtiaque