About private and shared assembly

[Tony Johansson]

Hello!

If I select a private assembly in ILDASM I get a lot of information listed
but if I select a shared assembly located at c:\window\assembly(GAC) I
get nothing listed.
So is this normal not seeing anything when using ILDASM on any
shared assembly located in the GAC.

Now to my second question:
If I create a shared assembly from a private assembly and then use
properties on this it shows for example the
codeBase:file:///C:/TEST_DLL/ClassLibrary3/bin/Release/classlibrary3.dll
but If I for example use properties on the Accessibility located in the
GAC this codeBase shows nothing why?

I mean the path to the actual Accessibility.dll should be displayed in the
codeBase when using the properties.

//Tony

 

[Guest]

Tony,
I think this was recently covered in this group. basically, the view you see
of the GAC (/assembly) folder is a custom shell folder extension view, you
cannot actually load the physical assembly or add a reference from there.

This little writeup I did may help:

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/PrintSearchContent.asp?LINKID=1175

Peter