I asked a question here and apparently the problem is where I can load an assembly using Reflection's Assembly.LoadFile
or Assembly.LoadFrom
, and get the type inside that assembly, the assembly is still not accessible in the whole application. So when WPF tries to resolve a type, it doesn't find that type because it doesn't find the assembly.
My question is, can I reference an assembly at runtime, so that it will be resolvable by WPF?
A solution that works for me is handling the CurrentDomain.AssemblyResolve
event
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AssemblyResolve +=
new ResolveEventHandler(OnAssemblyResolveFailure);
Assembly OnAssemblyResolveFailure(object sender, ResolveEventArgs args)
{
AssemblyName name = new AssemblyName(args.Name);
Assembly assembly = .. //some logic here to load the assembly from assembly name
return assembly;
}
This way if the application cannot resolve an assembly name it will call your handler to find it