When does .net check for assembly dependencies?
While pursuing a spearate problem I've come to a very peculiar situation. A demo code would be:
public class Global : HttpApplication
{
protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Log("In Application_Start");
SomeClass.SomeProp = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["PropValue"];
}
protected void Application_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Log("In Application_BeginRequest");
try
{
this.Application_Start(null, null);
}
catch ( Exception ex )
{
Log(ex.ToString());
}
Log("At the end of Application_BeginRequest");
}
}
What I get in my log is:
In Application_BeginRequest
Could not load file or assembly 'vjslib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
System.IO.FileNotFoundException
at MyRootNamespace.Global.Application_Start(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at MyRootNamespace.Global.Application_BeginRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e) in D:\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\开发者_运维问答SolutionDir\ProjectDir\Global.asax.cs:line 109
At the end of Application_BeginRequest
This makes no sense to me whatsoever. Consider:
vjslib
is referenced by my main project (assembly) which includes theGlobal
class. Why was the assembly loaded at all if its dependencies could not be resolved?SomeClass
is in another assembly which also referencesvjslib
.SomeClass
does usevjslib
and some members do expose classes that are derived from classes invjslib
, but the property used here is just a plain old string.- Why is there no line number in the first line of the stack trace?
Are the dependencies resolved on a per-method basis? I thought that Microsoft doesn't do such things anymore. What's going on here?
I believe that when CLR encounter reference to some type in IL, it attempts to load it. And they may result in loading the assembly. So all dependent assemblies does not necessarily get loaded at the start up - they will be getting loaded on demand.
Edit: See this question on SO about when assembly gets loaded. The book "CLR via C#" also talks about assembly getting loaded when type in encountered by JIT in IL.
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