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AppDomain.Load Method (String)

Updated: March 2011

Loads an Assembly given its display name.

Namespace:  System
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
public Assembly Load(
	string assemblyString
)

Parameters

assemblyString
Type: System.String
The display name of the assembly. See Assembly.FullName.

Return Value

Type: System.Reflection.Assembly
The loaded assembly.

Implements

_AppDomain.Load(String)
Exception Condition
ArgumentNullException

assemblyString is null

FileNotFoundException

assemblyString is not found.

BadImageFormatException

assemblyString is not a valid assembly.

-or-

Version 2.0 or later of the common language runtime is currently loaded and assemblyString was compiled with a later version.

AppDomainUnloadedException

The operation is attempted on an unloaded application domain.

FileLoadException

An assembly or module was loaded twice with two different evidences.

This method should be used only to load an assembly into the current application domain. This method is provided as a convenience for interoperability callers who cannot call the static Assembly.Load method. To load assemblies into other application domains, use a method such as CreateInstanceAndUnwrap.

For information that is common to all overloads of this method, see the Load(AssemblyName) method overload.

.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

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.

Date

History

Reason

March 2011

Clarified that this method is not for loading assemblies into other application domains.

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