C#: How to load assembly from GAC?
.net, assemblies, c#, gac
Solution
Have you tried using the fully qualified assembly name? (e.g. `"ycomp.myassembly.dll, Version=1.0.2004.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=8744b20f8da049e3"`)
Problem
I have "mycomp.myassembly.dll" in GAC but Load and LoadFrom throws file not found exception and LoadWithPartialName returns null. I'm doing the following: ``` AssemblyName name = new AssemblyName(); name.Name = "mycomp.myassembly.dll"; Assembly assembly = Assembly.Load(name); ``` fails with FileNotFound for mycomp.myassembly.dll file, and ``` Assembly assembly = Assembly.Load("mycomp.myassembly.dll"); ``` fails with exactly the same message. I double checked that assembly is in GAC (and even did gacutil /if for it again) and it does work in all other cases, I just unable to load it myself. What am I doing wrong here? Do I miss something?