"Lee Alexander" <lee@No_Spam_Please_Digita.com> wrote in message
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> Why does Assembly.Load allow this:
>
> Assembly.Load( "mscorlib" );
>
> if you try the following it fails as expected:
> Assembly.Load( "System" );
>
> Since it should be (for framework 1.1):
> Assembly.Load( "System, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral,
> PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" );
>
> I would have thought you would have had to do the same for mscorlib.
>
> Assembly.Load( "mscorlib, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral,
> PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" );
>
>
>
> Anyone shed some light?
>
>
> Regards
> Lee
>
>
>
>

"Marcelo Birnbach [MS]" <mbirnbac@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> mscorlib is a special case since you can only have one version of it per
> process. When your managed application is started there is already a
version
> of mscorlib loaded in the process, so specifying the version of mscorlib
is
> completely redundant information.
>
> Thanks,
> Marcelo
>
> "Lee Alexander" <lee@No_Spam_Please_Digita.com> wrote in message
> news:uK825%23XbDHA.2404@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > Why does Assembly.Load allow this:
> >
> > Assembly.Load( "mscorlib" );
> >
> > if you try the following it fails as expected:
> > Assembly.Load( "System" );
> >
> > Since it should be (for framework 1.1):
> > Assembly.Load( "System, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral,
> > PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" );
> >
> > I would have thought you would have had to do the same for mscorlib.
> >
> > Assembly.Load( "mscorlib, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral,
> > PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" );
> >
> >
> >
> > Anyone shed some light?
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Lee
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>