IIS7 not loading assembly

Question

I am using reflection to pick up a collection of Types to register in a container.

Problem is, after IIS 7.5 app pool recycles or an IISRESET , not all the assemblies can be picked up through reflection.

Any way to solve this problem without going through the bin folder and doing assembly load on each DLL?

Update:

I am using AppDomain.Current.GetAssemblies() to retrieve all the assemblies loaded.

Answer 1

Problem solved.

Don't use AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies().

Instead, use

System.Web.Mvc.BuildManager.GetReferencedAssemblies()

Only quirk is .GetReferencedAssemblies() passes back ICollection (of objects) which you need to cast to Assembly then work with.

Thanks all for your help.

Edit- Credit goes to Dominic Pettifer - "AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies() Considered Armed and Extremely Dangerous" http://www.dominicpettifer.co.uk/Blog/44/how-to-get-a-reference-to-all-assemblies-in-the--bin-folder?replyId=357

Indeed.

Tripple Edit. not AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetReferencedAssemblies(). Use the BuildManager class from System.Web.Mvc.