AutoAssemblyResolver 1.0.7 

dotnet add package AutoAssemblyResolver --version 1.0.7
                    


                    

                
NuGet\Install-Package AutoAssemblyResolver -Version 1.0.7
This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package. 
<PackageReference Include="AutoAssemblyResolver" Version="1.0.7">
  <PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets>
  <IncludeAssets>runtime; build; native; contentfiles; analyzers</IncludeAssets>
</PackageReference>
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package. 
<PackageVersion Include="AutoAssemblyResolver" Version="1.0.7" />
                    


                            Directory.Packages.props
                        

                    

                
<PackageReference Include="AutoAssemblyResolver">
  <PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets>
  <IncludeAssets>runtime; build; native; contentfiles; analyzers</IncludeAssets>
</PackageReference>
                    


                            Project file
For projects that support Central Package Management (CPM), copy this XML node into the solution Directory.Packages.props file to version the package. 
paket add AutoAssemblyResolver --version 1.0.7
                    


                    

                
#r "nuget: AutoAssemblyResolver, 1.0.7"
#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package. 
#addin nuget:?package=AutoAssemblyResolver&version=1.0.7
                    


                            Install AutoAssemblyResolver as a Cake Addin
                        

                    

                
#tool nuget:?package=AutoAssemblyResolver&version=1.0.7
                    


                            Install AutoAssemblyResolver as a Cake Tool

NuGet

AutoAssemblyResolver

This project helps with automatically resolving assemblies (dependencies) at runtime by file name alone.

This is helpfull, if the build in assembly version bindings and redirects aren't working for you and you don't want to write your own resolver.

How it works

The nuget package includes a source generator, which will generate an AssemblyResolve event for you. So you don't have to. Depending on the version of dotnet, it will use the ModuleInitializer attribute to let the compiler create a module initializer or it will create the module initializer on each build using a packaged tool Injector.

This way you project will automatically load any assembly by name alone, the version doesn't matter.

Motivation

I help build a large desktop solution, which has a ton of modules each with its own dependencies. This results in a dependencies hell situation, where one dependency is brought into the solution in multiple versions. To fix this issue the dotnet compiler will normaly create assembly version redirects for you. Then the runtime will know which dependency to load once accessed. Sadly this doesn't work when the main process isn't a dotnet process and modules are accessed via COM only. One way to fix this is to add an AssemblyResolve resolver to each module by hand. Having this many modules, this is not an option.

Warning

This will load dll files in the programs directory, if any code will try to access it. Depending on the use case this can be a huge security issue.

Acknowledgement

This project builds on Creating a module initializer in .NET from 2017.

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1.0.7 190 3/6/2025

Inject working on pack too