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Table 17-4.

Select Members of AppDomain

Member

Meaning in Life

CreateDomain()

This static method creates a new AppDomain in the current process.

Understand that the CLR will create new application domains as

necessary, and thus the chance of you absolutely needing to call this

member is slim to none.

GetCurrentThreadId()

This static method returns the ID of the active thread in the current

application domain.

Unload()

This is another static method that allows you to unload a specified

AppDomain within a given process.

BaseDirectory

This property returns the base directory used to probe for dependent

assemblies.

CreateInstance()

This method creates an instance of a specified type defined in a specified

assembly file.

ExecuteAssembly()

This method executes an assembly within an application domain, given

its file name.

GetAssemblies()

This method gets the set of .NET assemblies that have been loaded into

this application domain (COM-based or C-based binaries are ignored).

Load()

This method is used to dynamically load an assembly into the current

application domain.

In addition, the AppDomain type also defines a small set of events that correspond to various

aspects of an application domain’s life cycle, as shown in Table 17-5.

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Table 17-5.

Events of the AppDomain Type