how to serialize/deserialize an assembly object to and from a byte array

Question

Let\'s say a create an (executable) assembly in memory by compiling a code string. Then I want to serialize this assembly object into a byte array and then store it in a da

Answer 1

An assembly is more conveniently represented simply as a binary dll file. If you think of it like that, the rest of the problems evaporate. In particlar, look at Assembly.Load(byte[]) for loading an Assembly from binary. To write it as binary, use CompileAssemblyFromSource and look at the result's PathToAssembly - then File.ReadAllBytes(path) to obtain the binary from the file.