Question

I want to get information on an Assembly in my C# application. I use the following:

Assembly.GetCallingAssembly();

This works perfectly returning information on the calling Assembly.

I want to share this functionality with other applications, so I include this in a class in my class library.

I reference this class library in multiple applications. When I make a call to this method from my applications, it returns information on the class library and not the application. Is there a way I can alter my above code to return information on the web applications assembly while still having the code included in the class library?

Answer 1

Instead of having the class library being intelligent why don’t you have the caller pass an Assembly as argument to the method? So when you call the method from within some application you would pass Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly() and the method within the class library will now be able to fetch the assembly of the actual caller.