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lechuckcaptain
Joined: 01 Sep 2011
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 Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:22 am Post subject: Not referenced assemblies loaded with reflection |
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Hi,
I have a big VS2008 solution with many projects and many compiled assemblies, and I want to obfuscate them, and if possible embed them in only one executable.
The main problem is that some assemblies aren't referenced by the main executable, because they are loaded at runtime through reflection. So, SmartAssembly doesn't load these assemblies, and I can't add them to the final executable.
Is there a way I can avoid this problem?
Thank you in advance,
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james.davies
Joined: 19 Apr 2011
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SmartAssembly will only merge or embed assemblies which are in the references metadata. So you will need to add the reference to the main assembly for SmartAssembly to detect it.
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James Davies
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lechuckcaptain
Joined: 01 Sep 2011
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| Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you for the answer,
I tried adding the references to the assemblies without loading them, but it seems that {SA} doesn't load the assemblies.that aren't directly loaded. Can you confirm that?
Do I have to explicity load all the assemblies that I want to obfuscate in order to let {SA} to detect them?
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lechuckcaptain
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Brian Donahue
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What James said. You need to create a reference and possibly even use one of the referenced assemblies in your code (by creating a class from it). I say that because I noticed .NET doesn't load an assembly merely because there is a reference and you actually have to do something with the reference and I'd imagine SA behaves the same way.
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Julien
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So you'are not compatible with MEF ...
Morevover, we cannot use your solution with a XAML styles assembly ...
You should permit us to add assemblies that SA does't find !  |
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eric-914
Joined: 30 Nov 2012
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| Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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I had this problem too. My workaround is to add some code that directly references the .dll, even though the method that does so is never called in my code.
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[DoNotPrune]
public static class SmartAssemblyFix
{
public static Type ForceReferenceMethod()
{
return typeof([Namespace.Of.Library].[SomeClassInLibrary]);
}
} |
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Julien
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| Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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| I can't, it is dynamically loaded when I add DLLs in my bin |
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