The following describes roughly the sequence of interactions between CLR loader and fusion during Assembly.Load() in .Net framework 2.0.

1. User calls Assembly.Load.

2. Loader pass the assembly reference to fusion.

3. Fusion checks to see if the assembly has already loaded. If it is, the assembly is returned.

4. If not, fusion probes the assembly as described in MSDN. If fusion cannot find the assembly, it returns a failure.

5. If fusion finds an assembly, it asks load