Assembly Unloading

I needed a simple way of checking version information of an assembly that was not loaded into memory.  On System.Reflection.Assembly, there is the Load method, but unfortunately, now the assembly is in memory with no way of unloading it--eating up precious RAM.

However, .NET offers the AppDomain.  Simply create a new AppDomain and load assemblies into that for reviewing information of the assembly, then unload the domain.

Example:


System.AppDomain newdomain = System.AppDomain.CreateDomain("DataVerification");
Assembly assm = newdomain.Load("MyAssembly.dll");
MessageBox.Show("Assembly version: " + assm.GetName().Version.ToString();
System.AppDomain.Unload(newdomain);