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_Assembly.Location Property

.NET Framework 3.0

Other Versions

Provides COM objects with version-independent access to the Location property.

This property is not CLS-compliant.

Namespace: System.Runtime.InteropServices
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

Syntax

C++

string Location { get; }

/** @property */
String get_Location ()

JScript

function get Location () : String

XAML

Not applicable.

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 overload, the value returned is an empty string ("").

Remarks

This method is for access to managed classes from unmanaged code, and should not be called from managed code.

The Location property gets the path or Universal Naming Convention (UNC) location of the loaded file that contains the manifest.

Platforms

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

The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 is supported on Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1.

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.0, 2.0

Reference

_Assembly Interface
_Assembly Members
System.Runtime.InteropServices Namespace
Assembly.Location Property

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