assemblies

I have a .net library dll that acts like a functional library. There are a bunch of static types along with static methods. There is some initialization code that I need to run to set up the library ready for use. When the assembly gets loaded is there a way to ensure that a particular method is run? Something like AppDomain.AssemblyLoad but called automatically from the assembly itself. I was thinking that maybe there is something like an AssemblyAttribute that could be used? At the moment I have this initialization code in a static constructor but as this is a library with many entry points

I've got an assembly (loaded as ReflectionOnly) and I want to find all the namespaces in this assembly so I can convert them into "using" ("Imports" in VB) statements for an auto-generated source code file template. Ideally I'd like to restrict myself to top-level namespaces only, so instead of: using System; using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; you'd only get: using System; I noticed there is a Namespace property on the System.Type class, but is there a better way to collect Namespaces inside an assembly that doesn't involve iterating over all types and culling

Assembly.GetEntryAssembly() does not work for web applications. But... I really need something like that. I work with some deeply-nested code that is used in both web and non-web applications. My current solution is to browse the StackTrace to find the first called assembly. /// <summary> /// Version of 'GetEntryAssembly' that works with web applications /// </summary> /// <returns>The entry assembly, or the first called assembly in a web application</returns> public static Assembly GetEntyAssembly() { // get the entry assembly var result = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly(); // if none (ex: web

How do I find out the fully qualified name of my assembly such as: MyNamespace.MyAssembly, version=1.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089 I've managed to get my PublicKeyToken using the sn.exe in the SDK, but I'ld like to easily get the full qualified name. If you can load the assembly into a .NET application, you can do: typeof(SomeTypeInTheAssembly).Assembly.FullName If you cannot then you can use ildasm.exe and it will be in there somewhere: ildasm.exe MyAssembly.dll /text This is a shameless copy-paste from I Note It Down and is a simple way to get the FQN for the

I would like to know if I can define custom assembly attributes. Existing attributes are defined in the following way: [assembly: AssemblyTitle("MyApplication")] [assembly: AssemblyDescription("This application is a sample application.")] [assembly: AssemblyCopyright("Copyright © MyCompany 2009")] Is there a way I can do the following: [assembly: MyCustomAssemblyAttribute("Hello World! This is a custom attribute.")] Preet Sangha Yes you can. We do this kind of thing. [AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Assembly)] public class MyCustomAttribute : Attribute { string someText; public