Question

I have a Powershell script that calls a method in a C# library. The library dll is loaded as:

[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom("$automationHome\dll\abc.dll") | Out-Null

Now, my C# library uses another library xyz.dll in it. I believe I don’t need to load this in Powershell script, since the abc.dll will resolve it. However, I am getting an error saying:

Could not load file or assembly ‘xyz, Version=1.0.0.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’ or one of its dependencies. The
system cannot find the file specified.

Can someone please tell me how to fix this?

Answer 1

LoadFrom() should ideally look for the xyz.dll in the same directory as abc.dll

If you are running the script from the same directory as the dlls, add the below and then do the LoadFrom()

$currentScriptDirectory = Get-Location
[System.IO.Directory]::SetCurrentDirectory($currentScriptDirectory.Path)