Why does AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies() not return dependant assemblies in Global.asax under certain conditions?

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EDIT: This was previously entitled \"App Init behaviour different between IIS Restart and Application Initialisation\". I have changed the title to expand t

Answer 1

Well the post mentioned in my comment above led me in the right direction and then I found the answer on this post: Difference between AppDomain.GetAssemblies and BuildManager.GetReferencedAssemblies

So my code was changed to var assemblies = BuildManager.GetReferencedAssemblies();