Cross references and GAC

[Oriane]

Hi there,

I'm involved in a quite big project in C#/NET 2.0, with at least 50 VStudio
2005 projects.We don't use the GAC, and we tackling with all the DLL
references is messy. We often don't have the right version of the
dynamically loaded DLL.

I wonder if the situation will be the same if we have made the choice to use
the GAC ?

Cheers

 

[Michael Nemtsev]

Hello Oriane,

you need to have the strogly signed assemby to put it to GAC, so you allways
will have the uniqie name of your assembly.
So it helps you with your dll hell

O> VStudio 2005 projects.We don't use the GAC, and we tackling with all
O> the DLL references is messy. We often don't have the right version of
O> the dynamically loaded DLL.
O>
O> I wonder if the situation will be the same if we have made the choice
O> to use the GAC ?
O>
O> Cheers
O>
---
WBR, Michael Nemtsev [C# MVP].
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Team blog: http://devkids.blogspot.com/

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we
miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it" (c) Michelangelo

 

[Oriane]

Hello Oriane,

you need to have the strogly signed assemby to put it to GAC, so you
allways will have the uniqie name of your assembly.

Our assemblies are already strongly signed.
But do you mean that in the GAC the assembly name includes the version
(something like *.1.2.113.2.dll) ?

So it helps you with your dll hell

O> VStudio 2005 projects.We don't use the GAC, and we tackling with all
O> the DLL references is messy. We often don't have the right version of
O> the dynamically loaded DLL.
O> O> I wonder if the situation will be the same if we have made the
choice
O> to use the GAC ?
O> O> Cheers
O> ---
WBR, Michael Nemtsev [C# MVP]. My blog: http://spaces.live.com/laflour
Team blog: http://devkids.blogspot.com/

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we
miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it" (c) Michelangelo