MCAD/MCSD Training Guide (70-320): Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Visual C#™ .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework
by Amit Kalani, Priti Kalani
Deploying Shared Assemblies
Implement versioning
Plan, configure and deploy side-by-side deployments and applications.
A shared assembly is shared among multiple applications on a machine. It is reasonable to store a shared assembly in a common place, which is well known to all the applications that use the assembly. However, if shared assemblies are identified by just their names—as the private assemblies are—then there is a problem because there might be a case when two software publishers might use the same name for an assembly, thereby overwriting files and causing applications using those assemblies to behave abnormally.
To resolve this problem, the .NET Framework requires all shared assemblies to have a strong name. A strong name uses four ...
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