I've got an arbitrary list of .NET assemblies.
I need to programmatically check if each DLL was built for x86 (as opposed to x64 or Any CPU). Is this possible?
Look at System.Reflection.AssemblyName.GetAssemblyName(string assemblyFile)
.
You can examine assembly metadata from the returned AssemblyName instance:
Using PowerShell:
[36] C:\> [reflection.assemblyname]::GetAssemblyName("${pwd}\Microsoft.GLEE.dll") | fl Name : Microsoft.GLEE Version : 1.0.0.0 CultureInfo : CodeBase : file:///C:/projects/powershell/BuildAnalyzer/... EscapedCodeBase : file:///C:/projects/powershell/BuildAnalyzer/... ProcessorArchitecture : MSIL Flags : PublicKey HashAlgorithm : SHA1 VersionCompatibility : SameMachine KeyPair : FullName : Microsoft.GLEE, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neut...
Here, ProcessorArchitecture identifies the target platform.
I'm using PowerShell in this example to call the method.