[Mono-list] Using other Assemblies at Run time

[Jaroslaw Kowalski]

Normally you put all your assemblies (exe and dlls) in the same directory or
a subdirectory of the directory where the exe is located. These + GAC are
the only places where assembly loader looks for assemblies.

Most .NET apps that I've used (NAnt, NUnit, SharpReader, FXCop) place all
*.exes and *.directories in a application root directory or a bin directory.

You have either:

ROOT/bin/Application.exe
ROOT/bin/Library1.dll
...
ROOT/bin/LibraryN.dll
ROOT/somedata/data1.file
ROOT/somedata/data2.file
ROOT/somedata/data3.file

or

ROOT/Application.exe
ROOT/Library1.dll
...
ROOT/LibraryN.dll
ROOT/somedata/data1.file
ROOT/somedata/data2.file
ROOT/somedata/data3.file.

Sometimes you may see:

ROOT/Application.exe
ROOT/libraries/Library1.dll
...
ROOT/libraries/LibraryN.dll
ROOT/somedata/data1.file
ROOT/somedata/data2.file
ROOT/somedata/data3.file

but this requires you to provide a config file for the *.exe to tell the CLR
where to locate assemblies.

Jarek
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Met @ Uber" <met@uberstats.com>
To: "Mono-List" <mono-list@ximian.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 7:56 PM
Subject: [Mono-list] Using other Assemblies at Run time


> I'm writing an application that uses assemblies like log4net which do
> not belong with the rest for many reasons.  As such, I'm trying to
> figure out where it belongs.  If this were Java I'd create a lib
> directory to hold the Jars in the same directory as the EXE, but this
> isn't Java ;-)
>
> So basically, where do I put assemblies I need to be distributed with my
> application?  I do not want them in the main directory, for neatness,
> separation, etc.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> ~ Matthew
>
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