Is it possible to retrieve AssemblyAttributes with ILRepack?

[forki]

fsprojects/Paket#827

we struggle to retrieve CustomAttributes with reflection and all the assembly loading is crashing and locking files,...

I'm looking for a sane alternative.

[gluck]

ILRepack simply uses Mono.Cecil under the hood, AFAICT you should use Cecil too instead of System.Reflection to avoid loading up the assemblies "for real".
But you probably already know that, so I may have missed the point of your question :)

[forki]

ok. let's rephrase:

I assume we will take a dependency on ILRepack very soon. Since you depend
on Mono.Cecil I wonder if the API is still accessible in ILRepack.

2015-05-20 15:35 GMT+02:00 Francois Valdy [email protected]:

ILRepack simply uses Mono.Cecil under the hood, AFAICT you should use
Cecil too instead of System.Reflection to avoid loading up the assemblies
"for real".
But you probably already know that, so I may have missed the point of your
question :)

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[gluck]

Nope, Cecil version (custom build) is internalized in ILRepack.
You can use Cecil (any version) on your own though, it won't affect ILRepack.

You'll end up with duplicate Cecil types in your runtime, but I'm not sure you need to be concerned about that.

[forki]

You'll end up with duplicate Cecil types in your runtime, but I'm not sure you need to be concerned about that.

Only concern is my dll file size.

[gluck]

So that ~400k you could get rid of by not-internalizing-cecil in ILRepack and sharing the dependency.
Definitely doable, if you think it's worth it.