NGWS SDK Documentation  

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Overview of Locating Assemblies

This document describes how the NGWS runtime locates assemblies when they are referenced at runtime. The process of finding and loading an assembly begins with a reference to that assembly. We call this an AssemblyRef. An AssemblyRef contains the text name, version, culture and an optional Originatorthat identify the assembly.

Given an AssemblyRef, the process of binding to that assembly is influenced by:

The following picture shows the steps taken to locate an assembly. The details of each step are described in the following sections.