Can't get Assembly.GetCallingAssembly() to reflect the proper assembly

30 Nov 2006 3:44 PM

Brad Wood

I have an executable that references a separate .dll assembly. Inside the
..dll I call GetCallingAssembly and I always get a reference to the .exe.

Documentation for GetCallingAssembly says, "Returns the Assembly of the
method that invoked the currently executing method." Obviously that wasn't
the case. Reading further, I see that the copiler may be inlinining my
method and that I should decorate the method I'm calling GetCallingAssembly
from with MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.NoInlining). No joy.

Is there anything else I can try? I couldn't find anyone else who
experienced this...

30 Nov 2006 4:56 PM

Steve B.

Use GetExecutingAssembly if you wantto return the dll... the exe is the
calling assembly, not the executing...

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>I have an executable that references a separate .dll assembly. Inside the
>.dll I call GetCallingAssembly and I always get a reference to the .exe.
>
> Documentation for GetCallingAssembly says, "Returns the Assembly of the
> method that invoked the currently executing method." Obviously that
> wasn't the case. Reading further, I see that the copiler may be
> inlinining my method and that I should decorate the method I'm calling
> GetCallingAssembly from with MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.NoInlining). No
> joy.
>
> Is there anything else I can try? I couldn't find anyone else who
> experienced this...
>

30 Nov 2006 11:12 PM

Brad Wood

"Steve B." <steve_beauge@com.msn_swap_msn_and_com> wrote in message
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> Use GetExecutingAssembly if you wantto return the dll... the exe is the
> calling assembly, not the executing...

I tried that. Same thing with or w/o the attribute.

30 Nov 2006 11:38 PM

Brad Wood

"Steve B." <steve_beauge@com.msn_swap_msn_and_com> wrote in message
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> Use GetExecutingAssembly if you wantto return the dll... the exe is the
> calling assembly, not the executing...

Sorry, this was a Copy Local issue. I had tried GetExecutingAssebly, but I
was extracting the path (which always returned the path to the location of
the exe). I was expecting the location of the .dll as I referenced it.

And yes, I should use GetExectingAssembly.