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Asked: 2026-06-01T05:43:06+00:00

In Suzanne Cook’s blog there is such a description: LoadFrom Context: In general, if

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In Suzanne Cook’s blog there is such a description:

LoadFrom Context: In general, if the user provided Fusion a path which was used to find the assembly (and the assembly at that
path wouldn’t have been found in the Load context), then it’s in the
LoadFrom context. There are various methods to load by path:
LoadFrom(), CreateInstanceFrom(), ExecuteAssembly(), loading an
assembly through interop using a codebase, etc.

And also I found an MSDN article about it but I am not really sure whether the Fusion Suzanne talks about is same as here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e74a18c4(v=vs.71).aspx but it seems a Log viewer so what I understood what Suzanne says is

Fusion is a probing mechanism which takes path, etc and it probes
assemblies in Application Base, codeBase, GAC, etc. to load them into the context.

Some one can clarify this please?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Fusion is the code name for the assembly loader in .NET. If memory serves, Suzanne was on the Fusion team and wrote much of the Assembly binding log viewer. You can see the hint of the codename in this program, as it’s called fuslogvw.exe

    It is fusion’s job to seek out assemblies and load them into the current app domain so that a program can execute. The Assembly binding log viewer shows where it looks to find assemblies, and any issues that may arrise in loading them. Great for debugging.

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