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How to know the location of the assembly where it is being loaded from?

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When there are multiple versions of the same assembly exist in the machine, it is very easy to get confused about where is the assembly being loaded in a reflection call. Here is a code snippet which can tell you where the the assembly coming from.

Console.WriteLine(typeof(ClassName).Assembly.Location);

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  • Anonymous
    June 12, 2011
    If the assembly is in the GAC, I believe this could throw a security exception.

  • Anonymous
    April 08, 2012
    Maybe, at least when i was the administrator, this piece of code succeeded!