.net reflection assembly loading exception

Question

Hi i am loading an assembly as

Assembly testAssembly = Assembly.LoadFile("abc.dll");
Type t = testAssembly.GetType("abc.dll");

but getting an error "Absolute path information is required" however my dll is located in the same folder

Answer 1

wal has a good point about the GetType method call, but to answer the question:

string path = Path.Combine(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory, "abc.dll");
Assembly testAssembly = Assembly.LoadFile(path);

If AppDomain.CurrentDomain isn't reliable, then a slightly more convoluted way:

string path = Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location), "abc.dll");

Answer 2

You don't need to call Assembly.LoadFile if your dll is a .NET dll and in the same folder. You can simply call

Type t = Type.GetType("SomeType");

Are you really trying to get the type 'abc.dll' ? This should be a class name, not an assembly name.