C#® Developer's Guide to ASP.NET, XML, and ADO.NET

Managing the Global Assembly Cache

One of the advantages to working with ASP.NET is that code you write is compiled for you seamlessly and transparently. This is a useful feature; however, you may find yourself in a situation where you want to reuse the functionality found in one application in another. You may even want to share software functionality across two radically different types of applications. A Web application and a thick-client application on the Windows desktop, for example, might share a common set of code that performs a set of operations specific to your business. You can accomplish this through the use of components. (Because corporate application developers often use components to share standard business-specific code functionality ...