AssemblyName.CodeBase Property

Definition

Caution

AssemblyName.CodeBase and AssemblyName.EscapedCodeBase are obsolete. Using them for loading an assembly is not supported.

Gets or sets the location of the assembly as a URL.

C#
public string? CodeBase { get; set; }
C#
[System.Obsolete("AssemblyName.CodeBase and AssemblyName.EscapedCodeBase are obsolete. Using them for loading an assembly is not supported.", DiagnosticId="SYSLIB0044", UrlFormat="https://aka.ms/dotnet-warnings/{0}")]
public string? CodeBase { get; set; }
C#
public string CodeBase { get; set; }

Property Value

A string that is the URL location of the assembly.

Attributes

Examples

The following example emits a dynamic assembly and saves it to the current directory. When the assembly is created, the CodeBase property is used to specify the directory where the assembly is saved.

C#

using System;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Threading;
using System.IO;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Reflection.Emit;
using System.Configuration.Assemblies;

public class AssemblyName_CodeBase
{
   public static void MakeAssembly(AssemblyName myAssemblyName, string fileName)
   {
      // Get the assembly builder from the application domain associated with the current thread.
      AssemblyBuilder myAssemblyBuilder = Thread.GetDomain().DefineDynamicAssembly(myAssemblyName, AssemblyBuilderAccess.RunAndSave);
      // Create a dynamic module in the assembly.
      ModuleBuilder myModuleBuilder = myAssemblyBuilder.DefineDynamicModule("MyModule", fileName);
      // Create a type in the module.
      TypeBuilder myTypeBuilder = myModuleBuilder.DefineType("MyType");
      // Create a method called 'Main'.
      MethodBuilder myMethodBuilder = myTypeBuilder.DefineMethod("Main", MethodAttributes.Public | MethodAttributes.HideBySig |
         MethodAttributes.Static, typeof(void), null);
      // Get the Intermediate Language generator for the method.
      ILGenerator myILGenerator = myMethodBuilder.GetILGenerator();
      // Use the utility method to generate the IL instructions that print a string to the console.
      myILGenerator.EmitWriteLine("Hello World!");
      // Generate the 'ret' IL instruction.
      myILGenerator.Emit(OpCodes.Ret);
      // End the creation of the type.
      myTypeBuilder.CreateType();
      // Set the method with name 'Main' as the entry point in the assembly.
      myAssemblyBuilder.SetEntryPoint(myMethodBuilder);
      myAssemblyBuilder.Save(fileName);
   }

   public static void Main()
   {

      // Create a dynamic assembly with name 'MyAssembly' and build version '1.0.0.2001'.
      AssemblyName myAssemblyName = new AssemblyName();
      // Set the codebase to the physical directory were the assembly resides.
      myAssemblyName.CodeBase = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
      // Set the culture information of the assembly to 'English-American'.
      myAssemblyName.CultureInfo = new CultureInfo("en-US");
      // Set the hash algorithm to 'SHA256'.
      myAssemblyName.HashAlgorithm = AssemblyHashAlgorithm.SHA256;
      myAssemblyName.Name = "MyAssembly";
      myAssemblyName.Version = new Version("1.0.0.2001");
      MakeAssembly(myAssemblyName, "MyAssembly.exe");

      // Get all the assemblies currently loaded in the application domain.
      Assembly[] myAssemblies = Thread.GetDomain().GetAssemblies();

      // Get the dynamic assembly named 'MyAssembly'.
      Assembly myAssembly = null;
      for(int i = 0; i < myAssemblies.Length; i++)
      {
         if(String.Compare(myAssemblies[i].GetName().Name, "MyAssembly") == 0)
            myAssembly = myAssemblies[i];
      }
      // Display the full assembly information to the console.
      if(myAssembly != null)
      {
         Console.WriteLine("\nDisplaying the full assembly name\n");
         Console.WriteLine(myAssembly.GetName().FullName);
      }
   }
}

Remarks

When an assembly is loaded, this value can also be obtained using the Assembly.CodeBase property.

If the assembly was loaded as a byte array, this property returns the location of the caller of the Load(Byte[]) method overload, not the location of the loaded assembly.

Note

Do not use an AssemblyName with only the CodeBase property set. The CodeBase property does not supply any elements of the assembly identity (such as name or version), so loading does not occur according to load-by-identity rules, as you would expect from the Load method. Instead, the assembly is loaded using load-from rules. For information about the disadvantages of using the load-from context, see the Assembly.LoadFrom method overload or Best Practices for Assembly Loading.

Applies to

Product Versions (Obsolete)
.NET Core 2.0, Core 2.1, Core 2.2, Core 3.0, Core 3.1, 5, 6 (7, 8, 9)
.NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1
.NET Standard 2.0, 2.1