How do I unload an assembly?

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Oct 19, 2005, 6:24:56 AM10/19/05

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How do I unload an assembly?

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Bala murugan

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Oct 19, 2005, 7:10:07 AM10/19/05

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hi,

gacutil -u <assembly_name>.dll

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Oct 19, 2005, 7:18:24 AM10/19/05

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Hi Bala,

This command is to remove the assembly from GAC. The question is how to
unload from the project..

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BabuLives

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Oct 19, 2005, 7:31:19 AM10/19/05

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Ya...it is how to unload the assembly?Is it possible or not?

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Raja Prakash

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Oct 19, 2005, 8:09:42 AM10/19/05

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hey guys..

You cal unload only appdomain but not your assembly... you can do onething.. you can add new functions to you assembly at runtime... like creating one appdomain and load those functions to the existing assembly.... will soon send you guys a document... right now i can't...

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raj..

Shivprasad Koirala

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Oct 19, 2005, 11:33:27 PM10/19/05

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assembly is unloaded by garbage collector....But still if you want to
forcibily do it

gc.collect()

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Raja Prakash

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Oct 19, 2005, 11:56:49 PM10/19/05

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hey..

is it so? I thought it is for collecting objects that dont have any reference to the application...

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raj...

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Oct 20, 2005, 1:35:01 AM10/20/05

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Hi Shiv

Can you please provide some references about your saying. Because even
i think it is for collecting objects that dont have any reference to
the application..

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BabuLives

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Oct 20, 2005, 5:12:27 AM10/20/05

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We cannot unload a assembly but even then if we want to unload a
assembly we have unload the application domain itself.

The method for unloading the application domain is..

public static void Unload(AppDomain domain)

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Raja Prakash

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Oct 20, 2005, 5:48:28 AM10/20/05

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Satheesh...

I dont want that... domain should be there and i should replace that assembly by another assembly.... got it

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raj...

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Oct 20, 2005, 7:19:30 AM10/20/05

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This is to Load an Assembly at runtime:

Imports System.Reflection

Class Class1
Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim SampleAssembly As [Assembly]
' You must supply a valid fully qualified assembly name here.

SampleAssembly = [Assembly].Load("Assembly text name, Version,
Culture, PublicKeyToken")
Dim Types As Type() = SampleAssembly.GetTypes()
Dim oType As Type
' Display all the types contained in the specified assembly.
For Each oType In Types
Console.WriteLine(oType.Name.ToString())
Next oType
End Sub 'LoadSample
End Class 'Class1

To unload there is one way create a new appdomain
Go thru this site.

http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/56/284238.aspx

http://www.ms-inc.net/PluginInfo.aspx

There is no Assembly.Unload method

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