Re: Forcing an application to load assemblies from a specific path

"If the framework designers thought like you, "...

Come on. You are being extremely unfair. I've already said that as a
developer I agreed with you. Let me quote this line from my original message
again.

..."Remember that this is not my application so I can't change the fact that
it calls the GetMethod overload that takes a single string parameter with
the method's name."...

I never said adding overloads was a bad thing. My only point was that it
broke applications and that I was disappointed that this wasn't handled
better with side by side versioning.  Remember that for an end user - who
doesn't know what an overload is - the *only* option is to upgrade the
application. That is my only point.

- Fernando

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Ritchie" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Forcing an application to load assemblies
from a specific path


Programming "by coincidence" [1] should not put the onus on the framework to
ensure all poorly written code works in a new framework.

If the framework designers thought like you, their only option would be to
never add overloads; they'd have to always add only new method names.  This
would make for an entirely unusable framework over time.  By the same logic,
they wouldn't be able to add any methods with new names because someone my
be relying on the null return from GetMethod, or relying on a specific array
length from GetMethods.

That doesn't help the end-user; but realistically, poorly written code never
does.  The application developers have to accept the onus of writing good
code for their users; something the framework designers have no control
over.

If anything, the framework designers should deprecate GetMethod(string).

[1] http://www.pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/extracts/coincidence
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