Lifecycle guide for System.Reflection.MetadataLoadContext from Microsoft

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-05-14

What is System.Reflection.MetadataLoadContext?

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Provides read-only reflection on assemblies in an isolated context with support for assemblies that target different processor architectures and runtimes. Using MetadataLoadContext enables you to inspect assemblies without loading them into the main execution context. Assemblies in MetadataLoadContext are treated only as metadata, that is, you can read information about their members, but cannot execute any code contained in them.

The entire lifecycle of System.Reflection.MetadataLoadContext

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of System.Reflection.MetadataLoadContext. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.