What happens when loading the same assembly multiple times

[xcduan]

I have a question for you guys. I would like to load a bunch of controls dynamically from assemblies. Some controls may be defined in the same assembly. What happen if I load the same assembly more than one time? If Windows just maintain at most one instance of any assembly in memory, how is the efficiency of .NET to check the existance of the assembly in memory?

Many thanks!

Neo

 

[crystalized]

I don't know if this will help you at all but I had a need to dynamically load an assembly and depending on certain conditions I would chose which assembly to load. Now when I was first playing with this I had 2 assemblies in differenct locations with the same name. When I tried condition 1 I got the right assembly, then I tried condition 2 which I wanted to use the other assembly, but since an assembly with that same name was already loaded it used the one that was loaded.

So in a nutshell from what I have seen it will use the one that is in memory already without loading another one (unless I am misinterpreting the results I had which of course is very possible). As to performance of it I can not provide any insight sorry :-( Crystal
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[xcduan]

Thanks a lot! it is very helpful!