Loading an Assembly as a Byte Array

posted by  jhorra (5)  10 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

One of the various ways that you can load an assembly is by supplying the raw bytes of an assembly as a byte array.  The security identity of an assembly loaded this way turns out to be different than if you were to load the same assembly by name or by file.  In the case that you load an assembly with its name or its file name, we generate all the evidence that you normally think of -- such as Zone, Site, Url, StrongName, Publisher, etc.

Now, when we've loaded via a byte array, a lot of that information is