How can I load an assembly using its full display name from a location outside the application's bin path?
Usually one can load an assembly from a custom location with
Assembly.LoadFrom(path);
This works, but it seems that for loading a strong-named assembly I need to specify its full display name such as in
Assembly myDll =
Assembly.Load("myDll, Version=1.0.0.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=9b35aa32c18d4fb1");
But the problem here is that this only references assemblies that are in my probing path of my application.
So what if I have an assembly dir1/asm.dll and one assembly dir2/asm.dll and both have a strong name.
How can I load them during runtime?
During Runtime, you can specify additional directories to probe when loading an assembly via the following methods:
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.ClearPrivatePath();
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AppendPrivatePath();
When the subdirectory names are already known during installation, you can also specify these additional directories in the app.config file in the privatePath attribute of the <probing> element.
Make also sure the file name is correct. When you have
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AppendPrivatePath("Subdir");
Assembly myDll = Assembly.Load("myDll, Version=1.0.0.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=9b35aa32c18d4fb1");
then .net will look for a file named "mydll.dll" in the directory "Subdir" beneath the directory of the executable.