Assembly.Location Property (System.Reflection)

.NET Framework Class Library

Assembly..::.Location Property

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

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

Syntax

Visual Basic (Declaration)

Public Overridable ReadOnly Property Location As String

Visual Basic (Usage)

Dim instance As [Assembly]
Dim value As String

value = instance.Location

public virtual string Location { get; }

Visual C++

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

JScript

public function get 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

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.

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

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);

Visual C++

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 );

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);

.NET Framework Security

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

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