c# - .Net assembly override the Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase/Location of an external assembly

Question

I have a reference to an external assembly DLL (say I copy it in c:projectabc.dll) in the project setting. When I make a call to the exported method from that assembly I get runtime error. Because it is looking for a file abc.ini which is in c:ABC while the .exe error message saying that it cannot find the abc.ini in c:project

The assembly seems looking for the folder returned by either Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase or Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location for the abc.ini.

How to 'fool' only that assembly his assembly location is at c:ABC?

Answer 1

There's no reasonable way to change GetExecutingAssembly.CodeBase or Location. If you don't have source for the assembly in question, your only solution is to copy your assembly to c:ABC