I've got an application which needs to call some unmanaged code in a dll. I need to do these calls from multiple app domains and specifically want the assembly to be loaded into memory multiple times (once per app domain).
I've tried doing the following:
Dim AppDomainSetup As New AppDomainSetup
With AppDomainSetup
.PrivateBinPath = "<Blah>"
.LoaderOptimization = LoaderOptimization.MultiDomainHost
End With
Dim AppDomain As AppDomain = AppDomain.CreateDomain(String.Format("AppDomain-{0}", AppDomainCounter), Nothing, AppDomainSetup)
AppDomainCounter += 1
Dim Manager = CType(
AppDomain.
CreateInstanceAndUnwrap(
System.Reflection.Assembly.
GetExecutingAssembly.FullName,
"<My Manager Class>"), AppDomainManager)
Return Manager
AppDomainManager
inherits from MarshalByRefobject
and has a method on it which (eventually) calls
<DllImport("<Path>",
EntryPoint:="<MethodName>",
CallingConvention:=CallingConvention.Cdecl)>
Private Shared Function <MethodName>(
<InAttribute(),
MarshalAsAttribute(UnmanagedType.LPStr)>
ByVal sig1 As String,
<InAttribute(),
MarshalAsAttribute(UnmanagedType.LPStr)>
ByVal sig2 As String) As Integer
However, after doing some testing, it seems that a single (instance?) of the assembly is being loaded and shared between app domains. I'd hoped that the AppDomain.LoaderOptimization
setting would've forced a unique copy per domain.
Is there any way I can force the CLR to load the assembly multiple times?