[Mono-list] Workaround for AppDomain.Load + Unload problem?

Miguel de Icaza miguel@ximian.com
27 Aug 2003 18:08:23 -0400


Hello,

> We are creating an application which should be able to load and 
> unload assemblies at runtime to update parts of it dynamically.
> To unload an assembly you have to unload the AppDomain which 
> is running it. Now there is a problem in loading and unloading 
> AppDomains:
> http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=47659
> 
> Has someone done something similar and got around this problem?
> Is there maybe any workaround?

.NET does not support unloading assemblies. It is not an easy problem
to fix (neither in .NET nor in Mono).

Miguel