[Mono-devel-list] XSP - ASP.NET and /bin folder

[Olof Härwell]

It is not possible in MS ASP.NET using IIS. Look at:

AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory (the AppDomain root, which is the 
webroot in an ASP.NET app).

AppDomain.CurrentDomain.RelativeSearchPath (read-only) - A ;-seperated 
list of relative subdirectories to the AppDomain root where the the 
runtime looks for assemblies. By default this is set to /bin, so this is 
the only place where the assemblies can reside.

However, by calling AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AppendPrivatePath(path) you 
can add other directories to the 
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.RelativeSearchPath. So if you have your 
aspx-file in the webroot together with an assembly that you want to load 
you need to add:
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AppendPrivatePath("/") somewhere (e.g. 
Global.asac.cs).

It is only possible to add relative paths so if the assembly resides 
somewhere else they need to be registered in the GAC.

Cheers
Olof


yoros at wanadoo.es wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:57:06AM +0200, Olof Härwell wrote:
> 
>>You should also check the:
>>
>>- AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetShadowCopyPath(string paths)
>>Make sure your dlls are copied to the temporary folder
>>
>>- AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AppendPrivatePath(string path)
>>Add the folder to the assembly lookup paths.
>>
>>methods if you want to add DLLs that is not registered in the GAC and 
>>not in the /bin directory. The still needs to reside under the webroot 
>>due to security/appdomain reasons.
>>
> 
> 
> Can you tell me if ASP.NET in MS IIS can access to an assembly in the
> same dir of the .aspx page that references that assembly? Can access to
> another assembly extensions (like .exe, for example)?
> 
> Regards,
> 
>     Pedro
> 

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