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Mario Goebbels

Hi!

When I'm loading an assembly to reflect over it's types without ever
instancing a type in it, and then let the GC collect the related Assembly
object, will it be unloaded or stay in memory until the application ends?

The scenario is that one of my projects reflects over every DLL in a
subfolder whether it is a plugin or not, preferably I wouldn't want to have
DLLs loaded during that process which wouldn't be used anyway.

Thanks!

-mg

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David Levine

Once an assembly is loaded into an appdomain it stays loaded until the
appdomain itself is unloaded. If you want to be able to unload the
assemblies without exiting your app, then create another appdomain, reflect
over the assemblies in the other appdomain and do the work in there, and
then when done unload the appdomain.

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