finding current namespace in runtime

hi

to get the assembly name...


dim asm as system.reflection.assembly

messagebox.show("My assembly name is " & asm.fullname)

that gives me the value of 'nothing'

mmm... try this

        ' Get our assembly.
        Dim executing_assembly As System.Reflection.Assembly = _
            Me.GetType.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly()
        ' Get our namespace.
        Dim executing_namespace As String = _
            executing_assembly.GetName().Name.ToString()



this is taken from one of our apps and it definetely works here

darn...

i still get nothing reference for executing_assembly

i have to point out that this is a web application, not a windows forms application

What kind of magic are you looking to perform with loading a dynamic assembly?

Bob

crashed and burned.... that code snippet was from a winForm application.

If you are dealing with web then I think I'll bail out ;)

I want my DLL to create an instance of an object in the main running web-application, and then a get a reference to this object so i can invoke methods on the object.

When you put the DLL in the bin folder on the web server, and call Assembly.LoadFrom("..\bin\DLLFile.dll"), does it work?

Bob

my DLL can lie in different applications. and i want my DLL to load a class from the application. The DLL is to be used in several applications

the name of the class i want to invoke is predetermined, but the name of the main app may vary.

Can you add a reference to the DLL in the web application?  Would you want to put the DLL in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) on the web server?

Bob

I have a reference to the DLL in the web app.

I have solved my problem by doing the following:

in global.asax application_onstart for all apps that use the DLL:
application.add("RoleProvider",new MyRoleProvider())
myroleprovider implements a specific interface MyInterface.

then in the DLL:
dim o as MyInterface
o = ctype(httpcontext.current.application("RoleProvider"),MyInterface)


The thing is that i want to do this without registering the class in application_onstart
I hoped that i could do somehting like this:
dim a as Reflection.Assembly = Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly()
a.createinstance("MyRoleProvider",p1,p2,p3)

Are you developing using something like Web Matrix, or the IDE?

Bob

i use vs.net 2005

If you have a reference, then what is the reason for defining th provider in the Global.asax file?  Do you want every one accessing the application to use the same reference?

Bob

the main app has a reference to the dll, but the dll has no reference to the main app, and i want to load a class from the main app into the dll, without knowing the name of the main app at design time

May I be so bold as to ask what you are trying to accomplish here?

Bob

I'm trying to retrive some information from the application that hosts my dll.

In this particulare case I want the application to tell me wich roles is assosiated with a certian user for the current application. The same user can be valid for several apps thats way the current application have to do this jobb. Roles and access behavior is also spesific pr application.

It's the same concept as the 'provider' model microsoft uses in .net 2.0 but i don't want my developers to registere anything in the webconfig file to make thing work.
I just want them to make a class called 'MyProviderForSomthing' wich must implement then 'IMyProviderForSomething' interface and put that class in the App_Code folder.

Maybe I'm far off... ?????