renaming a third party dll in .net

Question

I have created one tool using console application named "DocumentHashcode" in which I am using third party DLL - DocumentFormat.OpenXml.dll.

When I'm going to deploy it, I am using DocumentHashcode.exe and DocumentFormat.OpenXml.dll for running the application.

I want to rename DocumentFormat.OpenXml.dll to CATBldHashCodeSupporterDll.dll. Can anyone advise how to achieve this?

Answer 1

You need to manually load the assembly. The simplest way is to load it before the JITer tries to load the DocumentFormat.OpenXml namespace. You can manually load it like this:

var dllPath = Path.Combine(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), "reNamed.dll");
Assembly.LoadFile(dllPath);

Alternatively you could listen to the AppDomain.AssemblyResolve event, which gives you the chance to load the renamed DLL once the JITer has failed to find it.