Relative path (referencing a DLL)

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Hi, I believe this has been discussed elsewhere, but is there a chance to use a relative path when referencing a DLL in C#? I want to put a DLL in the same folder as the gh definition, and make it discoverable.

Thanks!

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You should be able to use AssemblyLoadContext.Resolving to figure out at runtime where to load an assembly from that could not be loaded.

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We used to have to something similar some of our assemblies:

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This seems like an awful lot more effort than having our scripting system handle references for DLLs in the same directory as the definition. Maybe @eirannejad already has something for this.

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@mikity_kogekoge I am improving the package and dll reference system in Rhino WIP right now. The relative paths work in normal scripts but not scripts inside of Grasshopper. A workaround is to load the dll manually somewhere in the definition.

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Thanks!

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Found a workaround. Just load the DLL in a separate Python component. Then connect a dummy output to a dummy input of the target C# component. That way, the DLL is discoverable in the C# component.

import os
import clr

a=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(ghenv.Component.OnPingDocument().FilePath),"KingOfMonsters.dll")

clr.AddReference(a)
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