shared assembly

You don't have to register the assemblies in the GAC if you want to share them. You just need to let your project know where they can find the assemblies. You can also make local copies of the assemblies, but I don't necessarily recommend this because versions can change.
If you specify a CodeBase tag in your application to let the project know where the shared assembly is located, you won't need to put it in the GAC
Check out the following link to understand better how Microsoft looks for dependent assemblies.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/15hyw9x3.aspx

To understand codebase's check out
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/efs781xb.aspx

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Mike Gold16y ago
You don't have to register the assemblies in the GAC if you want to share them. You just need to let your project know where they can find the assemblies. You can also make local copies of the assemblies, but I don't necessarily recommend this because versions can change.
If you specify a CodeBase tag in your application to let the project know where the shared assembly is located, you won't need to put it in the GAC
Check out the following link to understand better how Microsoft looks for dependent assemblies.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/15hyw9x3.aspx

To understand codebase's check out
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/efs781xb.aspx

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