DataProviderObjectFactory.GetAssembly Method

Article
10/03/2012

Resolves a provider-specific assembly string to its corresponding Assembly representation.

Namespace: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Data.Framework
Assembly: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Data.Framework (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.Data.Framework.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Overridable Function GetAssembly ( _
    assemblyString As String _
) As Assembly

public virtual Assembly GetAssembly(
    string assemblyString
)

public:
virtual Assembly^ GetAssembly(
    String^ assemblyString
)

abstract GetAssembly : 
        assemblyString:string -> Assembly  
override GetAssembly : 
        assemblyString:string -> Assembly

public function GetAssembly(
    assemblyString : String
) : Assembly

Parameters

assemblyString
Type: System.String

A provider-specific assembly string.

Return Value

Type: System.Reflection.Assembly
An Assembly object representing the assembly resolved from the specified assembly string, if found; otherwise, nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).

Implements

IVsDataProviderObjectFactory.GetAssembly(String)

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
ArgumentNullException	The assemblyString parameter is nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).

Remarks

This method is useful when there are assembly names specified as strings in formats like a data support XML file, and these assembly names cannot be automatically resolved (or would be resolved incorrectly) by the CLR’s Load method. One use of this method is to expand an incomplete assembly declaration. (For example, if the string is "MyAssembly", it might get expanded to "MyAssembly, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=1234567890ABCDEF" before the CLR resolves it.)

This method is provided to shorten a provider’s specification of type names, which can help reduce duplication of a commonly used assembly throughout the code base.

.NET Framework Security

Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

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