Cache a dll in Application_Start?

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Adam Smith

As long as my code is reentrant, can I cache a dll with assembly.load in
my application_start and then access it from the application cache, then
invoke one of the methods inside it from multiple web service calls?

Thanks in advance.

Adam Smith
 
Adam Smith said:
As long as my code is reentrant, can I cache a dll with assembly.load in
my application_start and then access it from the application cache, then
invoke one of the methods inside it from multiple web service calls?
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Well, yes. But this is what happens if you just set a reference to the
assembly, and start using it in your code.

David
 
The reason I want to do an assembly.load at runtime is that I want to
pick up the dll name and location from a database setting entry at
startup, rather than hard coding the name.

Adam Smith
 
Adam Smith said:
The reason I want to do an assembly.load at runtime is that I want to
pick up the dll name and location from a database setting entry at
startup, rather than hard coding the name.
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That's fine. The same thing will happen. The assembly, once loaded, will
stay loaded, and you can use the assembly reference to create types defined
in that assembly.

David
 
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