Does a referenced assembly get loaded if no types in the assembly are “not used”?
The term used is is very subjective. For a developer it would mean that you probably never created an instance or called a method on it. But this does not cover the whole story. You can instead consider what are the reasons for an assembly load occurring. Suzanne’s blog on Assembly loading Failures would give you a good understanding of failures if that is what you are interested in. This post focuses on how to identify what exactly is causing an assembly to load.
We in the WCF team are very cautious on introducing assembly dependencies and how how our code paths can cause assembly loads since this impacts the reference set of your process. Images that get loaded during a WCF call can become the cause of slow start up since every assembly is a potential disk look up and larger the number the higher the impact to startup. As a guidance for quick app startup is that you can eliminate a lot of the unnecessary assemblies from being loaded to speed up application startup if you refactor types properly.
Read more: Sajay.com
The term used is is very subjective. For a developer it would mean that you probably never created an instance or called a method on it. But this does not cover the whole story. You can instead consider what are the reasons for an assembly load occurring. Suzanne’s blog on Assembly loading Failures would give you a good understanding of failures if that is what you are interested in. This post focuses on how to identify what exactly is causing an assembly to load.
We in the WCF team are very cautious on introducing assembly dependencies and how how our code paths can cause assembly loads since this impacts the reference set of your process. Images that get loaded during a WCF call can become the cause of slow start up since every assembly is a potential disk look up and larger the number the higher the impact to startup. As a guidance for quick app startup is that you can eliminate a lot of the unnecessary assemblies from being loaded to speed up application startup if you refactor types properly.
Read more: Sajay.com