Top "Assemblies" questions

Assemblies are collections of compiled .Net types and resources grouped into a logical and physical unit (in the form of a .dll file or .exe file).

How can I get the assembly file version

In AssemblyInfo there are two assembly versions: AssemblyVersion: Specify the version of the assembly being attributed. AssemblyFileVersion: Instructs a compiler …

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How to enable assembly bind failure logging (Fusion) in .NET

How do I enable assembly bind failure logging (Fusion) in .NET?

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How to fix "Referenced assembly does not have a strong name" error?

I've added a weakly named assembly to my Visual Studio 2005 project (which is strongly named). I'm now getting the error: "…

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Can I load a .NET assembly at runtime and instantiate a type knowing only the name?

Is it possible to instantiate an object at runtime if I only have the DLL name and the class name, …

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What are differences between AssemblyVersion, AssemblyFileVersion and AssemblyInformationalVersion?

There are three assembly version attributes. What are differences? Is it ok if I use AssemblyVersion and ignore the rest? …

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How can I determine if a .NET assembly was built for x86 or x64?

I've got an arbitrary list of .NET assemblies. I need to programmatically check if each DLL was built for x86 (…

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"Are you missing an assembly reference?" compile error - Visual Studio

I am currently working on a server control for other applications in our company to interface with a WCF service. …

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How to Load an Assembly to AppDomain with all references recursively?

I want to load to a new AppDomain some assembly which has a complex references tree (MyDll.dll -> …

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How to extract an assembly from the GAC?

There is a package I have to deal with which installs assemblies straight into the GAC (e.g. somewhere deep …

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Could not load file or assembly for Oracle.DataAccess in .NET

When I try to run a simple program to access oracle I am getting this message Could not load file …

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