{"id":47,"date":"2014-03-25T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2014-03-25T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T17:55:00","slug":"net-easily-get-dll-assembly-info-via-visual-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"NET : Easily Get DLL Assembly Info Via Visual Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, I had to try and remember how to easily get DLL information without going into the GAC. However, fortunately, there is easy way to get DLL assembly information ( including token, culture, &amp; version ) directly from Visual Studio :<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open your Visual Studio Solution<\/li>\n<li>Set a breakpoint and run in debug mode<\/li>\n<li>Open the Immediate Window<\/li>\n<li>Enter the path to your DLL using System.Reflection:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol><\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #38761d;\">?System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFile (@&#8221;C:VSSWebSoluablebinAjaxControlToolkit.dll&#8221;).FullName<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And you should receive something similar to the following:<\/p>\n<ol><\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #38761d;\">&#8220;AjaxControlToolkit, Version=3.5.11119.20050, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=28f01b0e84b6d53e&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, I had to try and remember how to easily get DLL information without going into the GAC. However, fortunately, there is easy way to get DLL assembly information ( including token, culture, &amp; version ) directly from Visual Studio : Open your Visual Studio Solution Set a breakpoint and run in debug mode Open &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/?p=47\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NET : Easily Get DLL Assembly Info Via Visual Studio&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}