How are DLLs loaded by the CLR?

Question

My assumption was always that the CLR loaded all of the DLLs it needed on startup of the app domain. However, I\'ve written an example that makes me question this assumption

Answer 1

This is a little off your question, but you can load all the assemblies at once if you would prefer not having it happen on demand. Something like this should do the trick

foreach (AssemblyName asn in Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetReferencedAssemblies())
{
    var asm = Assembly.Load(fn);
    // I've found get types does a good job of ensuring the types are loaded.
    asm.GetTypes();
}