Assembly resolution in Unity

Question

I have a WCF service project hosted in IIS. The main SVC file is in the root of the web application folder, and in the bin\ folder are the actual dlls. The web.config (also in the root) contains all the unity mappings. Unfortunately, it seems that because the concrete assemblies etc. are living in the bin\ folder, Unity cannot find them.

Is there a way in the Unity configuration file that one can specify a path (sort of like probing) where the DLLs might live - or to put the path inside the mappings themselves somehow? I don't want to actually have to modify the probing paths in the machine.config etc. if we can avoid that.

I've looked on MSDN and Googled around but couldn't find anything of help.

Any ideas?

Ta

Isaac

Answer 1

I too doubt this is a Unity issue. Have you tried using the Fusion log viewer, FUSLOGVW.EXE, to see what the application is trying to load and where it's looking for the assemblies?

http://www.ademiller.com/blogs/tech/2008/01/gotchas-fusion-log-viewer-your-best-friend-for-assembly-load-errors/

This should tell you what the current probing path looks like and you can take it from there.