Assembly.CodeBase: when is it no file-URI?

Posted by Marc Wittke on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Marc Wittke
Published on 2009-10-23T09:28:33Z Indexed on 2010/05/07 7:28 UTC
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Assembly.Location gives a plain path to the assembly. Unfortunately this is empty when running in a shadowed environment, such as unit test or ASP.NET. Hovever, the Codebase property is available and provides a URI that can be used instead. In which cases it returns no URI starting with file:///? Or in other words: what are the cases in which this won't work or will return unusable results?

Assembly assembly = GetType().Assembly;    
Uri codeBaseUri = new Uri(assembly.CodeBase);
string path = codeBaseUri.LocalPath;

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