Loading of a Class in .Net

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Explain me when a class is loaded waht the process take place

Posted 21-Sep-11 0:49am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Sep-11 20:48pm

Not quite correct, but interesting question, in fact. I voted 4.
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Manfred Rudolf Bihy · Answer 1 · 2011-09-21T03:29:00

Solution 1

Please look into this article here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163791.aspx[^].

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—MRB

Posted 21-Sep-11 3:29am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Sep-11 20:49pm

Thank you for referencing interesting article, my 5.
Nevertheless I tried to answer the question directly. I think it's somewhat interesting, please see.
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2011-09-21T14:45:00

A class is not "loaded" at all. It statically exists in an assembly after it is loaded. No part of code of the loaded assembly is involved in it. The class statically exists in an assembly in the same way as any part of the code.

At the same time, if a class has static members which need initialization, the initialization code is pre-elaborated when an assembly (or rather a process using assembly) is loaded. By the way, this creates an interesting case of the code which runs before application entry point (Main) is started.

So, the term loaded is not applicable to classes. Main activity takes place when an instance of the class is created. This is called construction (a case of initialization), not loading, and this is not what you have asked about.

—SA