How to get an assembly's full name?

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cindy liu - 14 Nov 2005 22:30 GMT

Hi,

I know the assembly name, dll name and class name, and it is in gac. How do
I know its full name including its public key and version?

Actually what I want to do is to use .Net reflection to load an assembly
from GAC first. If it is not in the gac, let user provide its file path and
then load it. How do I load a dll from GAC without knowing its full name?
Which namespace has GAC related APIs?

Thanks in advance!!!
Cindy

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Dmytro Lapshyn [MVP] - 17 Nov 2005 07:29 GMT

Hi,

To load an assembly from ther GAC, you don't need an API. Simple Assembly.LoadWithPartialName should do the trick.

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Dmytro Lapshyn [Visual Developer - Visual C# MVP]

> Hi,
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> Thanks in advance!!!
> Cindy

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