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AssemblyName::CodeBase Property

 

Gets or sets the location of the assembly as a URL.

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

public:
property String^ CodeBase {
	String^ get();
	void set(String^ value);
}

Property Value

Type: System::String^

A string that is the URL location of the assembly.

When an assembly is loaded, this value can also be obtained using the Assembly::CodeBase property.

If the assembly was loaded as a byte array, this property returns the location of the caller of the Load(array<Byte>^) method overload, not the location of the loaded assembly.

System_CAPS_noteNote

Do not use an AssemblyName with only the CodeBase property set. The CodeBase property does not supply any elements of the assembly identity (such as name or version), so loading does not occur according to load-by-identity rules, as you would expect from the Load method. Instead, the assembly is loaded using load-from rules. For information about the disadvantages of using the load-from context, see the Assembly::LoadFrom method overload or Best Practices for Assembly Loading.

The following example emits a dynamic assembly and saves it to the current directory. When the assembly is created, the CodeBase property is used to specify the directory where the assembly is saved.

using namespace System;
using namespace System::Reflection;
using namespace System::Threading;
using namespace System::IO;
using namespace System::Globalization;
using namespace System::Reflection::Emit;
using namespace System::Configuration::Assemblies;
static void MakeAssembly( AssemblyName^ myAssemblyName, String^ fileName )
{
   // Get the assembly builder from the application domain associated with the current thread.
   AssemblyBuilder^ myAssemblyBuilder = Thread::GetDomain()->DefineDynamicAssembly( myAssemblyName, AssemblyBuilderAccess::RunAndSave );

   // Create a dynamic module in the assembly.
   ModuleBuilder^ myModuleBuilder = myAssemblyBuilder->DefineDynamicModule( "MyModule", fileName );

   // Create a type in the module.
   TypeBuilder^ myTypeBuilder = myModuleBuilder->DefineType( "MyType" );

   // Create a method called 'Main'.
   MethodBuilder^ myMethodBuilder = myTypeBuilder->DefineMethod( "Main", static_cast<MethodAttributes>(MethodAttributes::Public | MethodAttributes::HideBySig | MethodAttributes::Static), void::typeid, nullptr );

   // Get the Intermediate Language generator for the method.
   ILGenerator^ myILGenerator = myMethodBuilder->GetILGenerator();

   // Use the utility method to generate the IL instructions that print a String* to the console.
   myILGenerator->EmitWriteLine( "Hello World!" );

   // Generate the 'ret' IL instruction.
   myILGenerator->Emit( OpCodes::Ret );

   // End the creation of the type.
   myTypeBuilder->CreateType();

   // Set the method with name 'Main' as the entry point in the assembly.
   myAssemblyBuilder->SetEntryPoint( myMethodBuilder );
   myAssemblyBuilder->Save( fileName );
}

int main()
{
   // Create a dynamic assembly with name 'MyAssembly' and build version '1.0.0.2001'.
   AssemblyName^ myAssemblyName = gcnew AssemblyName;

   // Set the codebase to the physical directory were the assembly resides.
   myAssemblyName->CodeBase = Directory::GetCurrentDirectory();

   // Set the culture information of the assembly to 'English-American'.
   myAssemblyName->CultureInfo = gcnew CultureInfo( "en-US" );

   // Set the hash algoritm to 'SHA1'.
   myAssemblyName->HashAlgorithm = AssemblyHashAlgorithm::SHA1;
   myAssemblyName->Name = "MyAssembly";
   myAssemblyName->Version = gcnew Version( "1.0.0.2001" );
   MakeAssembly( myAssemblyName, "MyAssembly.exe" );

   // Get all the assemblies currently loaded in the application domain.
   array<Assembly^>^myAssemblies = Thread::GetDomain()->GetAssemblies();

   // Get the dynamic assembly named 'MyAssembly'. 
   Assembly^ myAssembly = nullptr;
   for ( int i = 0; i < myAssemblies->Length; i++ )
   {
      if ( String::Compare( myAssemblies[ i ]->GetName()->Name, "MyAssembly" ) == 0 )
            myAssembly = myAssemblies[ i ];
   }
   if ( myAssembly != nullptr )
   {
      Console::WriteLine( "\nDisplaying the full assembly name\n" );
      Console::WriteLine( myAssembly->GetName()->FullName );
   }
}

.NET Framework
Available since 1.1
Silverlight
Available since 2.0
Windows Phone Silverlight
Available since 7.0
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