Unload / Clear / ReloadAssembly / HotReplaceAssembly all called LoadedAssembly.Dispose() on the assembly they removed, which disposes its MetadataFile and unmaps the underlying file. But open document tabs and tree nodes can still hold that MetadataFile, and the list has no safe point at which to know those references are gone -- so disposing risked unmapping a file out from under a live reader (use-after-dispose). Drop the removed assembly and let the GC reclaim it once nothing references it instead. The DockWorkspace cancel-on-remove is now a courtesy, not a guard against an unmap race.
MetadataFile now declares IDisposable using the canonical pattern
(public non-virtual Dispose() + protected virtual Dispose(bool)).
PEFile and WebCilFile become sealed and override Dispose(bool) to
release the PEReader and MemoryMappedViewAccessor they own;
ResourcesFile is also sealed. PortableDebugInfoProvider disposes the
MetadataReaderProvider it owns. LoadedAssembly implements IDisposable
and disposes both the loaded MetadataFile and the debug-info provider.
AssemblyList.Unload / Clear / ReloadAssembly / HotReplaceAssembly now
dispose the LoadedAssembly instances they evict, fixing a resource leak
where every "Reload Assembly" held the previous PEReader (and the
underlying file handle / memory-mapped view) alive until GC eventually
finalized it.
The disposal contract terminates at the AssemblyList tier: downstream
holders of MetadataFile (MetadataModule, DecompilerTypeSystem,
AssemblyListSnapshot, ...) hold borrowed references rather than owned
ones, so making the base IDisposable does not cascade into CA1001 /
CA2213 warnings elsewhere.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* We no longer maintain the weird `loadingAssemblies` global state.
* AssemblyList now internally handles multiple concurrent load requests for the same filename.
* AssemblyList.assemblies and its lock is now private to the AssemblyList.
* Removed a questionable caching layer (cache was per-AssemblyList, but was caching the result of a per-LoadedAssembly lookup function.
* Replaced static DisableAssemblyLoad() with bool-parameter on GetAssemblyResolver() call.
The assembly list is not automatically sorted into explicit/auto loaded
groups at the moment. Sorting the list loses the tree state (expanded
nodes/selections)...