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How do I get the paths of all the assemblies referenced by the currently executing assembly? GetReferencedAssmblies() gives me the AssemblyName[]s. How do I get to where they are loaded from, from there?
You cannot know until the assembly is loaded. The assembly resolution algorithm is complicated and you can’t reliably guess up front what it will do. Calling the
Assembly.Load(AssemblyName)override will get you a reference to the assembly, and its Location property tells you what you need.However, you really don’t want to load assemblies up front, before the JIT compiler does it. It is inefficient and the likelihood of problems is not zero. You could for example fire an
AppDomain.AssemblyResolveevent before the program is ready to respond to it. Avoid asking this question.