Loading an external .NET Standard 2.0 assembly with blazor

Question

In a Blazor app, I want to load an external assembly and execute a method. For this, I have created a new ASP.Net Core webapplication using the Blazor template.

Then, in

Answer 1

This is caused by the blazor linker stripping out the dependency to netstandard since it's not explicitly used in the main WebAssemblyHost project.

When dynamically loading a DLL that uses netstandard, it will assume that it was already loaded and crash.

If you plan to load assemblies dynamically, I recommend using

false

to ensure non of the base dependencies is stripped out.