[Dependency walker] Some terminologies to clarify

Question

Hi guys:

What delay-load dependencies\functions are meant for in the following document?

http://www.dependencywalker.com/faq.html

Thanks

Answer 1

Hard to parse your question. Delay-load is a feature of unmanaged code. It won't load a DLL until the program actually makes a call to a function exported in the DLL.

DependencyWalker is quite unsuitable for managed code. Assemblies are dynamically loaded by the JIT compiler, DependencyWalker cannot see such assembly references.