LoadAssembly – Loading an assembly identified by the path or the partial name

LoadAssembly – Loading an assembly identified by the path or the partial name

' Load an assembly identified by the path or the partial name' Note: requires Imports System.Reflection' ' Examples:'   1) Dim asm As [Assembly] = LoadAssembly("System.Web")'   2) Dim asm As [Assembly] = LoadAssembly("C:MyAppMyAssembly.dll") Function LoadAssembly(ByVal asmFile As String) As [Assembly]    Dim asm As [Assembly]    Try        ' attempt to load the assembly from a path        asm = [Assembly].LoadFile(asmFile)    Catch ex As Exception ' ignore exceptions    End Try    Try        ' attempt to load an assembly with this (partial) name        If asm Is Nothing Then            asm = [Assembly].LoadWithPartialName(asmFile)        End If    Catch ex As Exception ' ignore exceptions    End Try    ' return whatever we have found so far    Return asmEnd Function

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