how to read the assembly manifest without loading the .dll

Question

Essentially need to read the dependencies programmatically without loading the assembly itself, as then you can\'t unload them

Answer 1

Kumar,

You CAN unload .Net DLLs but you have to use the AppDomain object to load them in the first place and then again to unload.

Take a look: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.appdomain(VS.80).aspx

If you still want to avoid this type of process, i suppose you could parse the the DLL yourself but that would be much more work than using the AppDomain i think.

-p