Assembly.Location Property (System.Reflection)

.NET Framework Class Library

Assembly..::.Location Property

Updated: July 2010

Gets the path or UNC location of the loaded file that contains the manifest.

Namespace: System.Reflection
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

Public Overridable ReadOnly Property Location As String
	Get

public virtual string Location { get; }

public:
virtual property String^ Location {
	String^ get ();
}

abstract Location : string
override Location : string

Property Value

Type: System..::.String
The location of the loaded file that contains the manifest. If the loaded file was shadow-copied, the location is that of the file after being shadow-copied. If the assembly is loaded from a byte array, such as when using the Load(array<Byte>[]()[]) method overload, the value returned is an empty string ("").

Implements

_Assembly..::.Location

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
NotSupportedException	The current assembly is a dynamic assembly, represented by an AssemblyBuilder object.

Remarks

To get the location before the file has been shadow-copied, use the CodeBase property.

Examples

The following example displays the location of the loaded file that contains the manifest.


    Dim SampleAssembly As [Assembly]
    ' Instantiate a target object.
    Dim Integer1 As New Int32()
    Dim Type1 As Type
    ' Set the Type instance to the target class type.
    Type1 = Integer1.GetType()
    ' Instantiate an Assembly class to the assembly housing the Integer type.  
    SampleAssembly = [Assembly].GetAssembly(Integer1.GetType())
    ' Display the physical location of the assembly containing the manifest.
    Console.WriteLine(("Location=" + SampleAssembly.Location))
End Sub 'Snippet3


Assembly SampleAssembly;
// Instantiate a target object.
Int32 Integer1 = new Int32();
Type Type1;
// Set the Type instance to the target class type.
Type1 = Integer1.GetType();
// Instantiate an Assembly class to the assembly housing the Integer type.  
SampleAssembly = Assembly.GetAssembly(Integer1.GetType());
// Display the physical location of the assembly containing the manifest.
Console.WriteLine("Location=" + SampleAssembly.Location);


Assembly^ SampleAssembly;
// Instantiate a target object.
Int32 Integer1(0);
Type^ Type1;
// Set the Type instance to the target class type.
Type1 = Integer1.GetType();
// Instantiate an Assembly class to the assembly housing the Integer type.  
SampleAssembly = Assembly::GetAssembly( Integer1.GetType() );
// Display the physical location of the assembly containing the manifest.
Console::WriteLine( "Location= {0}", SampleAssembly->Location );

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

.NET Framework Security

FileIOPermission
for access to the path. Associated enumeration: FileIOPermissionAccess..::.PathDiscovery

Platforms

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Reference

Assembly Class

System.Reflection Namespace

Change History

Date	History	Reason
July 2010	Added missing exception.	Customer feedback.

Date

History

Reason

July 2010

Added missing exception.

Customer feedback.