Question

Is it possible to change the path of a DLL at runtime? I need to link a DLL, but I will not be able to give the DLL to the user, but i know the user have that DLL on it’s hard disk. So i have show a generic form to the user, where it can enter the path, then I have to take that path (as string) and load the dll dynamically to my program. After it’s loaded I will use stuff from that DLL.

Is this possible and even if, how to do?

Answer 1

To add to Chris’ answer.

To avoid using reflection on the loaded assembly, code your classes within the assembly against common interfaces and you can then instantiate your objects like so:

Assembly assembly = Assembly.LoadFile(pathOfAssembly);
InterfaceName instance = (InterfaceName)assembly.CreateInstance("fully qualified type name", true);