How to get Refrence Dll Path Using Csharp?

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I created a class library project and added X.dll and y.dll and I am building it. It creates Classlibrary.dll. This classlibrary.dll consists of X.dll and y.dll.

Now I am creating a new Winforms application and adding ClassLibrary.dll as a reference. Now if I run the Winforms application I want to find the reference path of X.dll and Y.dll

I tried this but it shows Winforms local bin folder as the path

C#

MyAssembly = Assembly.LoadFrom("Classlibrary.Dll");
  string asembl = GetCurrentExecutingDirectory(MyAssembly);


 public static string GetCurrentExecutingDirectory(Assembly assemb)

{

       string filePath = new Uri(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase).AbsolutePath;

         return Path.GetDirectoryName(filePath);
     }

It shows only local path folder like D:\Winform\bin\debug\Winform.dll or winform.exe ... this is not right . i need path from GAC ..pls any one help me

Posted 9-Mar-12 0:50am

Rohit Prakash Srivastava

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Mar-12 21:14pm

What does it mean: "This classlibrary.dll consists of X.dll and y.dll". How it consists?
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Mar-12 21:16pm

Is "ClassLibrary.DLL" a .NET Assembly or not?
Is there any reason to load DLL instead of referencing it?
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Mar-12 21:34pm

Why path from GAC? It's never really needed.
--SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2012-03-10T15:30:00

Roughly speaking, the whole purpose of GAC is that you never need a path from it. You just reference an assembly by its full name. To see how it's done in the project, please see how some assembly bundled with .NET is referenced, such as "System.Windows.Forms.dll". Please also see my comments to the question.

Even if you need to load the assembly from the GAC dynamically, you should rather use System.Reflection.Assembly.Load(string assemblyString), please see the example on this page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ky3942xh.aspx[^].

You code for "current executing directory" is questionable. You can have 1) location of the assembly where you function is called; 2) more usually used, the location of the main module of the entry assembly; 3) working directory.
Note that different assemblies of your application can be placed in different directories; there a different methods of assembly resolution, based on config file or code.

Right methods would be:

C#

static string GetAssemblyDirectory(System.Reflection.Assembly assembly) {
    return System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(assembly.Location);
}

//...

string callerAssemblyLocation = GetAssemblyDirectory(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly());
string entryAssemblyLocation = GetAssemblyDirectory(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly());
string workingDirectory = System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();

Please see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.reflection.assembly.aspx[^].

—SA