load and execute assembly from arbitary directory

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Published on 2010-06-10T12:52:29Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 13:03 UTC
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How can I load, reflect on and then instanciate types of an assembly that is in an arbitary directory on the system using Assembly.Load or similar without having to modify any security settings for the runtime on the machine. The user should be able to specify the name and location at runtime.

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