loading Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms.dll via reflection (can't find location)

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Chance Hopkins - 31 Jan 2006 18:20 GMT

Either of these work, if I have the dll in the bin with my app. When I
delete it, I get an IO error.

System.Reflection.Assembly a =
System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFrom("Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms.dll");

System.Reflection.Assembly a =
System.Reflection.Assembly.Load("Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms,
Version=1.0.5000.0,Culture=neutral");

How do I use the installed assembly? and where is it? I did a search of my
whole device and it didn't turn up. I have 1.1 sp3 and 2.0 installed.

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Chris Tacke, MVP - 31 Jan 2006 20:25 GMT

The first fails because the files are in the GAC and are named accordingly
(use remote reg editor to see the DLLs in the Windows folder - you'll see
what I mean. Look for files with names that start with "GAC_". The second
probably fails because you've got the wrong version number. Use cgautil to
check

-Chris

> Either of these work, if I have the dll in the bin with my app. When I
> delete it, I get an IO error.
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> How do I use the installed assembly? and where is it? I did a search of my
> whole device and it didn't turn up. I have 1.1 sp3 and 2.0 installed.

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Chance Hopkins - 31 Jan 2006 21:04 GMT

Thanks for the suggestions. I got the right version number from cgacutil and
found the files in the windows directory.

I tried these three and still it won't load:

Assembly.Load("Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms,
Version=1.0.4292.0,Culture=neutral");
Assembly.LoadFrom("GAC_Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms_v1_0_5000_0_cneutral_1.dll");
Assembly.LoadFrom("\\\\Windows\\GAC_Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms_v1_0_5000_0_cneutral_1.dll");

> The first fails because the files are in the GAC and are named accordingly
> (use remote reg editor to see the DLLs in the Windows folder - you'll see
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>> How do I use the installed assembly? and where is it? I did a search of
>> my whole device and it didn't turn up. I have 1.1 sp3 and 2.0 installed.

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Chance Hopkins - 31 Jan 2006 21:11 GMT

nm. Got it with:

Assembly.LoadFrom("\\Windows\\GAC_Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms_v1_0_5000_0_cneutral_1.dll");

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