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you can change the dll while the app is runing only if you load the dll at runtime into a different appdomain.<br />
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appDomain = AppDomain.CreateDomain(&quot;My<wbr />NewDomain&quot;<wbr />);<br />
assembly = appDomain.Load(&quot;dllToLoadD<wbr />yn&quot;);<br />
SomeType = assembly.GetType( &quot;dllToLoadDyn.SomeType&quot; );<br />
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// do whatever with the dll<br />
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AppDomain.Unload( appDomain );<br />
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hth,<br />
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you can change the dll while the app is runing only if you load the dll at runtime into a different appdomain.

appDomain = AppDomain.CreateDomain("MyNewDomain");
assembly = appDomain.Load("dllToLoadDyn");
SomeType = assembly.GetType( "dllToLoadDyn.SomeType" );

// do whatever with the dll

AppDomain.Unload( appDomain );

hth,
A.


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Is it possible to update a DLL while a service is running that uses the DLL ? Or does the service have to be stopped before the DLL can be replaced.
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Is it possible to update a DLL while a service is running that uses the DLL ? Or does the service have to be stopped before the DLL can be replaced.

Replace DLL while application is running

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