\nLooking at the Feb CTPNotes file again, there's another change that caught my eye. DROP ASSEMBLY has changed with respect to dependent assemblies. In past, you had to drop assemblies one at a time, so if assembly A called assembly B, you first dropped A then B. Now dropping A drops B automatically if B has the "is_visible" flag is false for B.\n<\/p>\n
\nAlthough the looks like a convenience change at first, it actually solves a problem people run into when they go outside the mainstream of the supported BCL assemblies. If, for example, you used a library of your own that had a reference to System.Drawing (it's a library that draws an icon, but you don't intend to use this portion in SQL Server), this triggered a set of BCL references, some of them circular references. The only way to catalog something like this to SQL Server entailed cataloging as UNSAFE and (because of dependencies) also cataloging many unsupported base class libraries. But you couldn't drop it all because of the circular references.\n<\/p>\n
\nAnother example of this is using the J# language. Because J# support libraries use COM interop, the most trivial J# program (I just added two numbers together) must be cataloged as UNSAFE and results in 4 J# support libraries and 6 or so unsupported base class libraries being cataloged as dependencies. It's now possible to drop the J# assembly and have it drop all the associated assemblies at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Looking at the Feb CTPNotes file again, there's another change that caught my eye. DROP ASSEMBLY has changed with respect to dependent assemblies. In past, you had to drop assemblies one at a time, so if assembly A called assembly B, you first dropped A then B. Now dropping A drops B automatically if B […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql-server-2005","category-sqlclr"],"yoast_head":"\n