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Message from discussion Loading multiple files with the same name

Douglas Stockwell

More options Dec 14 2007, 10:08 am

From: Douglas Stockwell <d...@11011.net>

Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:08:18 +0900

Local: Fri, Dec 14 2007 10:08 am

Subject: Re: Loading multiple files with the same name

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Isn't it enough to give them a seperate assembly name, but keep the same
file name?

a\foo.dll = "foo{guid1}, v0.0.0, ..."
b\foo.dll = "foo{guid2}, v0.0.0, ..."

Doug

Wayne Kelly wrote:

> Ruby programs (such as RubyGems) can load multiple source files with the same base name (ifthey are in different directories).

> Eg:
> require 'A\foo'
> require 'B\foo'

> Each of these source files may have already been separately compiled into an assembly.
> So, directory A might contain an assembly, presumably named foo.dll, as might directory B.

> If these assembly files are named foo.dll, then presumably the assemblies will be named "foo".

> .NET doesn't allow two assemblies with the same name to be loaded in the same app domain.

> This seems to imply that we need to strongly name all of our generated assemblies;
> and that we will need to use a different (randomly generated) key for signing each assembly.

> Please tell me I'm wrong.

> Can anyone think of an alternative?

> Cheers, Wayne.

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