Question

Can i create an assembly from a stream much like MSSMS generated assembly script?
I need to create an assembly from a DLL that is placed in a directory the SQL Server doesn’t have access to.
The assembly installer does have access to the assembly though.
So my question is: can i read the assembly and generate a create from the stream read?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I think i figured it out..
I’m using Tomalak’s Byte Array to Hexadecimal method from this post.

     private string getAssemblyAsHex(string asmPath)
     {
        using (BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(File.OpenRead(asmPath)))
        {
            byte[] buff = new byte[br.BaseStream.Length];
            br.Read(buff, 0, buff.Length - 1);
            return ByteArrayToString(buff);
        }
     }

    private static string ByteArrayToString(byte[] ba)
    {
        StringBuilder hex = new StringBuilder(ba.Length * 2);
        foreach (byte b in ba)
            hex.AppendFormat("{0:x2}", b);
        return hex.ToString();
    }

Then i just concat this string to the CREATE ASSEMBLY statement.
The code is written with a small DLL assembly in mind.