Using AppDomain to load an assembly

[Chris Dunaway]

I am using reflection to load an assembly dynamically at runtime. If there
are classes in the assembly that implement a particular interface, I put an
entry in a list for later use.

My questions concerns the loading of the assembly. Since there is no way
to unload the assembly, what happens if a assembly I have loaded does not
contain any classes that implement my interface? Does the assembly just
hang around until the app ends? Does it really matter?

I wish to avoid this if possible and I read that to be able to unload an
assembly, you have to use an AppDomain. I have been unable to find a
clear, simple example that shows this.

Can anyone help?

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[Chris Dunaway]

I am using reflection to load an assembly dynamically at runtime. If there
are classes in the assembly that implement a particular interface, I put an
entry in a list for later use.

My questions concerns the loading of the assembly. Since there is no way
to unload the assembly, what happens if a assembly I have loaded does not
contain any classes that implement my interface? Does the assembly just
hang around until the app ends? Does it really matter?

I wish to avoid this if possible and I read that to be able to unload an
assembly, you have to use an AppDomain. I have been unable to find a
clear, simple example that shows this.

Can anyone help?

Wouldn't you know it, as soon as I post a request, I find an answer. Here
it is for others with this question:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/searchforplugins.asp

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Chris

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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

[Unloading assemblies]
I wish to avoid this if possible and I read that to be able to unload an
assembly, you have to use an AppDomain. I have been unable to find a
clear, simple example that shows this.

Do you speak C#?

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