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

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Brad Wood - 30 Nov 2006 15:44 GMT

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...

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Steve B. - 30 Nov 2006 16:56 GMT

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

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

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Brad Wood - 30 Nov 2006 23:12 GMT

> 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.

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Brad Wood - 30 Nov 2006 23:38 GMT

> 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.

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