.NET Class Loader - What is it?

Question

I can\'t find any good documentation on what the concept of a Class Loader is in the .NET Framework? What is it? Where can it be found? Does anyone know?

Answer 1

Randy Levy's didn't answer all. Class loader did more jobs than Assembly.LoadFrom. Because there isn't a method like ‘Assembly.Unload'. The assemblies could be only unloaded by closing appdomain. Java's class loader can do lot of more than Randy Levy's answer. Here tag a better answer in stackoverflow Equivalent of Class Loaders in .NET