Identify managed or unmanaged dll.

[shivonkar]

How can we know that given dll is managed or unmanaged. Thanks Shivonkar

[Matt Gerrans]

If LoadLibrary() fails, then it isn't unmanaged. That doesn't guarantee it is managed, though, it may just be junk -- so you could then try to follow up with System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFile, or the like. Determining the whether it is .net 1.1 or 2.0, etc. might be interesting too. Also, if you get verion info from the file, a .NET dll will have "Assembly Verion" whereas an unmanaged dll will not (well, probably -- there's nothing to prevent some perverse developer from adding such it to an unmanaged dll, I guess). The other thing is to look up the binary format; I don't know if there is some magic number in the first few hundred bytes of a managed assembly to identify it as such... Matt Gerrans

[leppie]

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