Assembly.Location Property

Gets the physical location, in codebase format, of the loaded file that contains the manifest.

[Visual Basic]
Public Overridable ReadOnly Property Location As String
[C#]
public virtual string Location {get;}
[C++]
public: __property virtual String* get_Location();
[JScript]
public function get Location() : String;

Property Value

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(Byte[]) method, Location is an empty string ("").

Exceptions

Example

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

[Visual Basic] 
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

[C#] 
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);

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

[JScript] 
var SampleAssembly : Assembly;
// Instantiate a target object.
var Integer1 : Int32 = 0;
var Type1 : 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);

Requirements

Platforms: Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003 family

.NET Framework Security: 

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

See Also

Assembly Class | Assembly Members | System.Reflection Namespace