Assembly Class

Assembly Class

Represents an assembly, which is a reusable, versionable, and self-describing building block of a common language runtime application.

Inheritance Hierarchy

SystemObject
System.ReflectionAssembly

Namespace: System.Reflection
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll) Version: 4.0.0.0

Syntax

[SerializableAttribute]
public abstract class Assembly : _Assembly, 
	IEvidenceFactory, ICustomAttributeProvider, ISerializable

The Assembly type exposes the following members.

Methods

	Name	Description
	Equals	Determines whether this assembly and the specified object are equal. (Overrides ObjectEquals(Object).)
	GetExecutingAssembly	Gets the assembly that contains the code that is currently executing.
	GetHashCode	Returns the hash code for this instance. (Overrides ObjectGetHashCode.)
	GetType	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetType(String)	Gets the Type object with the specified name in the assembly instance.
	GetType(String, Boolean)	Gets the Type object with the specified name in the assembly instance and optionally throws an exception if the type is not found.
	GetType(String, Boolean, Boolean)	Gets the Type object with the specified name in the assembly instance, with the options of ignoring the case, and of throwing an exception if the type is not found.
	MemberwiseClone	Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	ToString	Returns the full name of the assembly, also known as the display name. (Overrides ObjectToString.)

Properties

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

Events

	Name	Description
	ModuleResolve	Occurs when the common language runtime class loader cannot resolve a reference to an internal module of an assembly through normal means.