Plugin assembly path to find other needed assemblies

[Luis Arvayo]

Actually it is:

How to define the plugin assemblies path in order to find other assemblies
which the plugin depends on.

Example:

If I have:

c:\myapp\applic ation.exe

then, other assemblies are also installed on the same subdirectory, example:

c:\myapp\assemb ly1.dll
c:\myapp\assemb ly2.dll


Then in subdirecory Plugins under main subdirectory I installed the plugins:

c:\myapp\Plugin s\plugin1.dll

But plugin1.dll also depends on

c:\myapp\assemb ly1.dll

as same as application.exe .

When runtime, there is an error when loading the assembly (with
Assembly.Load(x xx)) that dependant assemblies on plugin1.dll were not found
(c:\myapp\assem bly1.dll).

How to solve this without moving the plugins assemblies to the main
subdirectory ?

Thanks in advance
Luis Arvayo

[Frans Bouma [C# MVP]]

Re: Plugin assembly path to find other needed assemblies

Luis Arvayo wrote:
[color=blue]
> Actually it is:
>
> How to define the plugin assemblies path in order to find other
> assemblies which the plugin depends on.
>
> Example:
>
> If I have:
>
> c:\myapp\applic ation.exe
>
> then, other assemblies are also installed on the same subdirectory,
> example:
>
> c:\myapp\assemb ly1.dll
> c:\myapp\assemb ly2.dll
>
>
> Then in subdirecory Plugins under main subdirectory I installed the
> plugins:
>
> c:\myapp\Plugin s\plugin1.dll
>
> But plugin1.dll also depends on
>
> c:\myapp\assemb ly1.dll
>
> as same as application.exe .
>
> When runtime, there is an error when loading the assembly (with
> Assembly.Load(x xx)) that dependant assemblies on plugin1.dll were not
> found (c:\myapp\assem bly1.dll).
>
> How to solve this without moving the plugins assemblies to the main
> subdirectory ?[/color]

In the application.exe .config file, add:
<runtime>
<assemblyBindin g xmlns="urn:sche mas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<probing privatePath="Pl ugins"/>
</assemblyBinding >
</runtime>

This will tell fusion to look in the subfolder Plugins for referenced
assemblies as well. Check the probing tag's documentation for more
details :)

Frans

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[Luis Arvayo]

Re: Plugin assembly path to find other needed assemblies

Thanks for the answer, but...

Your suggestion works only for the main application which I already had
defined before posting. But it seems that it is ignored for the plugin,
because the error is raisee when issued the Assembly.Load(x xx)

Regards
Luis Arvayo


"Frans Bouma [C# MVP]" <perseus.usenet NOSPAM@xs4all.n l> escribió en el
mensaje news:xn0eh6jlg4 nnil004@news.mi crosoft.com...[color=blue]
> Luis Arvayo wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Actually it is:
>>
>> How to define the plugin assemblies path in order to find other
>> assemblies which the plugin depends on.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> If I have:
>>
>> c:\myapp\applic ation.exe
>>
>> then, other assemblies are also installed on the same subdirectory,
>> example:
>>
>> c:\myapp\assemb ly1.dll
>> c:\myapp\assemb ly2.dll
>>
>>
>> Then in subdirecory Plugins under main subdirectory I installed the
>> plugins:
>>
>> c:\myapp\Plugin s\plugin1.dll
>>
>> But plugin1.dll also depends on
>>
>> c:\myapp\assemb ly1.dll
>>
>> as same as application.exe .
>>
>> When runtime, there is an error when loading the assembly (with
>> Assembly.Load(x xx)) that dependant assemblies on plugin1.dll were not
>> found (c:\myapp\assem bly1.dll).
>>
>> How to solve this without moving the plugins assemblies to the main
>> subdirectory ?[/color]
>
> In the application.exe .config file, add:
> <runtime>
> <assemblyBindin g xmlns="urn:sche mas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
> <probing privatePath="Pl ugins"/>
> </assemblyBinding >
> </runtime>
>
> This will tell fusion to look in the subfolder Plugins for referenced
> assemblies as well. Check the probing tag's documentation for more
> details :)
>
> Frans
>
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