Assembly initialization

[Bob Altman]

Hi all,

Is there a way to tell .Net to run some code when an assembly is initially
loaded? I have a dll that wants to set up some shared members before any
classes are actually instantiated out of it.

TIA,

- Bob

 

[Peter Huang]

Hi Bob,

I think you may try to handle the AppDomain.AssemblyLoad Event.
Occurs when an assembly is loaded.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/
frlrfsystemappdomainclassassemblyloadtopic.asp

Best regards,

Peter Huang
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[Bob Altman]

Hi Peter,

It's not clear how that could work for me. I am writing a DLL that wants to
guarantee that it initializes itself. I don't control the calling program,
which is where the AppDomain.AssemblyLoad event would need to be handled.

 

[Bob Altman]

Never mind... I think I'm trying to ask .Net to do something that doesn't
really make sense. I'll just do my initialization in the static (Shared in
VB) constructor of the class that needs to be initialized.

- Bob