More reasons to dislike LoadFrom

Readers of my blog should recognize by now that I'm not a big fan of LoadFrom assemblies. If you haven't read my previous notes on them, you can find a basic background here, an explaination of LV 7 and assemblies here, and the future plans here.

I'd hoped that we could've gotten rid of the LoadFrom context completely in Constellation, but apparently we can't. Our various techniques didn't work and word from Microsoft is that you just can't avoid the context if the assembly isn't in the GAC or probe path.

So, as I mentioned in the previous posts, let me put out the plea again to please keep your assemblies in the GAC or in the directory of the VI (7.x) or project (Constellation).

Why am I bringing this up? Well, here are a couple of new blog posts (here and here) by a developer at Microsoft on more nastiness regarding the LoadFrom context. Let's just all agree we don't want to go there...