Question

My scenario – I am trying to send a Assembly File from Server to Client (via direct TCP connection). But the major problem is- how do I convert this Assembly to bytes to that it can be readily transferred? I used following –

byte[] dllAsArray; using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream()) {     BinaryFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();     formatter.Serialize(stream,loCompiled.CompiledAssembly);     dllAsArray = stream.ToArray(); } 

But when I use –

Assembly assembly = Assembly.Load(dllAsArray); 

I get an exception –

Could not load file or assembly ‘165 bytes loaded from Code generator server, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’ or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. Please help!!!

Answer 1

Wouldn’t that just be the raw dll contents, as though you had saved it to disk? i.e. the equivalent of File.ReadAllBytes?

It sounds like the dll is generated – can you save it anywhere? (temp area, memory stream, etc)?

edit Since it seems you are using code-dom, try using PathToAssembly (on the compiler-results) and File.ReadAllBytes (or a similar streaming mechanism).