Assembly.GetEntryAssembly Method (System.Reflection)

GetEntryAssembly Method

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Assembly..::.GetEntryAssembly Method

Gets the process executable in the default application domain. In other application domains, this is the first executable that was executed by AppDomain..::.ExecuteAssembly.

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

Syntax

Visual Basic (Declaration)

Public Shared Function GetEntryAssembly As Assembly

Visual Basic (Usage)

Dim returnValue As [Assembly]

returnValue = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly()

public static Assembly GetEntryAssembly()

Visual C++

public:
static Assembly^ GetEntryAssembly()

JScript

public static function GetEntryAssembly() : Assembly

Return Value

Type: System.Reflection..::.Assembly
The Assembly that is the process executable in the default application domain, or the first executable that was executed by AppDomain..::.ExecuteAssembly. Can return nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) when called from unmanaged code.

Remarks

The GetEntryAssembly method can return nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) when a managed assembly has been loaded from an unmanaged application. For example, if an unmanaged application creates an instance of a COM component written in C#, a call to the GetEntryAssembly method from the C# component returns null, because the entry point for the process was unmanaged code rather than a managed assembly.

Platforms

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

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

Version Information

.NET Framework

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

Reference

Assembly Class

Assembly Members

System.Reflection Namespace