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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there a design reason that pythonnet loads C# assemblies into its own AppDomain rather than establishing a separate AppDomain? It would be useful for instance when developing in C# in parallel with writing python code (say, in the ipython
REPL) to be able to reload C# assemblies dynamically.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Also, we’ve found it useful in Initialize() to enable shadow copying, to prevent file locking, ie<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:darkcyan;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Initialize</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white;mso-highlight:white">() {</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:darkblue;background:white;mso-highlight:white">AppDomain</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white;mso-highlight:white"> domain =
</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:darkblue;background:white;mso-highlight:white">AppDomain</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white;mso-highlight:white">.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:purple;background:white;mso-highlight:white">CurrentDomain</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white;mso-highlight:white">;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white;mso-highlight:white"> </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green;background:white;mso-highlight:white">//
prevent file locking</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white;mso-highlight:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white;mso-highlight:white"> domain.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:darkcyan;background:white;mso-highlight:white">SetShadowCopyFiles</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white;mso-highlight:white">();<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white;mso-highlight:white"> domain.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:darkcyan;background:white;mso-highlight:white">SetShadowCopyPath</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white;mso-highlight:white">(</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue;background:white;mso-highlight:white">null</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white;mso-highlight:white">);</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Although these are deprecated methods, and really it should be establishing a new AppDomain as above.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Adam<o:p></o:p></p>
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