Reading assembly versionnumber without locking the file

[Johan Karlsson]

Hi,

I'm trying to read an assembly versionnumber without locking the file. I
created a new AppDomain, turned shadowcopy on and even read the assembly
into a byte array before loading it. It still locks the file on disk though?

The assembly is in the same directory as the executable and is called
ICareClient.dll.

Thanks in advance

Johan

Sloppy Example Code:


Dim info As New AppDomainSetup

info.ApplicationBase = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory

info.PrivateBinPath = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory

info.ShadowCopyDirectories = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory

info.ShadowCopyFiles = "true"

Dim appD As AppDomain = AppDomain.CreateDomain("myDomain",
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.Evidence, info)

Dim app As [Assembly]

Dim f As New FileInfo("ICareClient.dll")

Dim fs As FileStream = f.OpenRead

Dim bytes As Byte()

ReDim bytes(fs.Length)

fs.Read(bytes, 0, fs.Length)

fs.Close()

Dim v As String

app = appD.Load(bytes)

v = app.GetName.Version.ToString



AppDomain.Unload(appD)

Return v

 

[Mattias Sjögren]

Johan,

Try using AssemblyName.GetAssemblyName() instead.



Mattias

 

[Johan Karlsson]

Thanks Mattias!

That worked out fine!

(SWE: Hygglo)

/Johan