"Thomas Krause" <Forum.Thomas.Krause-NoSpam-@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I have the following problem:
>
> I have a .net 2.0 application, which dynamically loads a Managed C++
> assembly. The managed c++ assembly has the ProcessorArchitecture correctly
> set to x86 (32 Bit). The application however does not have the
> 32Bit-Corflag set and is therefore loaded by the x64 version of the .net
> framework runtime (64 Bit). So when the application tries to load the
> Managed C++ assembly I get an exception, because it cannot use the 32 Bit
> managed C++ assembly in the 64 Bit application.
>
> So I need a way to force the os to load an assembly with the 32 Bit
> runtime and not the 64 Bit runtime. I know that I can use the "corflags"
> application in the SDK to set the 32Bit-Flag, but since the application is
> a strong signed 3rd party application it does not allow me to do this (and
> since I don't have the source code I cannot recompile it either).
>

"David Browne" <davidbaxterbrowne no potted meat@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Thomas Krause" <Forum.Thomas.Krause-NoSpam-@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have the following problem:
>>
>> I have a .net 2.0 application, which dynamically loads a Managed C++
>> assembly. The managed c++ assembly has the ProcessorArchitecture
>> correctly set to x86 (32 Bit). The application however does not have the
>> 32Bit-Corflag set and is therefore loaded by the x64 version of the .net
>> framework runtime (64 Bit). So when the application tries to load the
>> Managed C++ assembly I get an exception, because it cannot use the 32 Bit
>> managed C++ assembly in the 64 Bit application.
>>
>> So I need a way to force the os to load an assembly with the 32 Bit
>> runtime and not the 64 Bit runtime. I know that I can use the "corflags"
>> application in the SDK to set the 32Bit-Flag, but since the application
>> is a strong signed 3rd party application it does not allow me to do this
>> (and since I don't have the source code I cannot recompile it either).
>>
>
> The only way I know to do this is to build your own launcher application,
> load the 3rd party application assembly and run its main method.
>
> EG
> Compile the following with x86 target:
>
>
> using System;
> using System.Collections.Generic;
> using System.Text;
> using System.Diagnostics;
> using System.Reflection;
>
> namespace Run32bit
> {
> class Program
> {
> static void Main(string[] args)
> {
> try
> {
> string target = @"c:\program files\Whatever\whatever.exe";
> Assembly target = Assembly.LoadFile(target);
> target.EntryPoint.Invoke(null, new object[] { args });
> }
> catch (Exception ex)
> {
> Console.WriteLine(ex);
> }
>
>
> }
> }
> }
>
>
>
> David
>