Samer Ibrahim's BlogThe Samer I Warrior on battles with .NETOdd behavior in ASP.NET- May 5, 2004 So after wasting about an hour and a half debugging why in the world I kept getting an invalid cast exception, I discovered a quirk in the way ASP.NET loads assemblies. Apparently, the .NET framework loads everything in the bin directory that even looks like a DLL. For example, if you have a file called DLL_ the framework will load it anyway. Why the hell it does this I don't know!!! It's not even a DLL for God's sake! Now you might be wondering why in the world I have a.http://weblogs.asp.net/sibrahim/archive/2004/05/04/126185.aspx More Training... this time on SharePoint- May 3, 2004 So after my complaining about SharePoint documentation you might be wondering how to get some good SharePoint training. Well the answer is pretty clear cut. You get training from Barracuda.NET, a company run by Ted Pattison and Jason Masterman both former DevelopMentor guys. I've been going through their training now but it's clear that they not only wrote a very good training program but are determined to answer all your questions even if that requires offline...http://weblogs.asp.net/sibrahim/archive/2004/05/02/124826.aspx AssemblyResolve event of an AppDomain- May 3, 2004 I got a comment from a gentleman by the name of Anthony DeRosa asking for more details relating to how to load an assembly from a network location from my earlier post regarding the GAC. So even though I found that this is addressed elsewhere when I googled for it what the heck another entry won't hurt anyone. Let's start with the Assembly.LoadFrom method which most people are familar with. One can easily load an assembly from a network location just using...http://weblogs.asp.net/sibrahim/archive/2004/05/02/124827.aspx |