Assembly Class Locking Issue
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I am using the Assembly.LoadFrom() method in my application to extract some information from some DLLs and I am running into a locking problem. Even after I am done with the file and have set the Assembly to null it keeps the file I loaded locked until the application terminates. The problem comes when I try and update the DLL with a new version automatically via the main application. I am unable to copy the newly downloaded version over because the file still reports as locked by Windows. Does anyone know a way to tell the Assembly object to release it's hold on the file it loaded?
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I am using the Assembly.LoadFrom() method in my application to extract some information from some DLLs and I am running into a locking problem. Even after I am done with the file and have set the Assembly to null it keeps the file I loaded locked until the application terminates. The problem comes when I try and update the DLL with a new version automatically via the main application. I am unable to copy the newly downloaded version over because the file still reports as locked by Windows. Does anyone know a way to tell the Assembly object to release it's hold on the file it loaded?
An assembly cannot be unloaded from an
AppDomain. In order to make sure the file doesn't remained locked in use, however, you can read-in the file, grab the raw bytes, and load the buffer:byte[] assembly;
using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(pathToAssembly, FileMode.Open,
FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read))
assembly = new byte[fs.Length];
fs.Read(assembly, 0, assembly.Length);
fs.Close();
}
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.Load(assembly, null);Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles
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An assembly cannot be unloaded from an
AppDomain. In order to make sure the file doesn't remained locked in use, however, you can read-in the file, grab the raw bytes, and load the buffer:byte[] assembly;
using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(pathToAssembly, FileMode.Open,
FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read))
assembly = new byte[fs.Length];
fs.Read(assembly, 0, assembly.Length);
fs.Close();
}
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.Load(assembly, null);Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles
Thanks, that method works great.