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I am developing a web application in visual studio 2010 with target framework - 3.5 I am using a dll (developed by another team) in which i get an error for following code :

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string strName = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().GetName().Name;

i checked and found that System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly() is returning null and also searched about that and found on msdn that GetEntryAssembly() may return null, when it is called from any unmanaged code.

When I am calling from my web application, it is returning null and when I call from any windows application, it works fine,i.e. it gets the entry assembly name (the assembly from which the execution has started). Why it is returning null in Web application? i can't understand. I also tried to change the output type of my web project to Class Library, from the project properties in visual studio, but the dropdown for output type, is disabled and i can't change the output type of the project. Please help me if any solutions exists for this problem.

thanks in advance

Amit Shahani

Posted 13-Feb-13 23:22pm

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**Joezer BH** · Answer 1 · 2013-02-14T00:58:00

The GetEntryAssembly method can return null when a managed assembly has been loaded from an unmanaged application. For example, if an unmanaged application creates an instance of a COM component written in C#, a call to the GetEntryAssembly method from the C# component returns null, because the entry point for the process was unmanaged code rather than a managed assembly.