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Deploying a Private Assembly

Private deployment results in an isolated application where the application is a directory tree. Everything that you need to run your application is self contained and a part of the directory structure that is designed into the application.

This is the simplest case. If possible, this is how you should deploy your application. With a private assembly, you simply copy the files to a unique directory and run the code from there. When the software needs to be upgraded, you create another directory and copy the new files to the new directory and run. The added overhead of the disk storage space for the two versions of your software is undoubtedly minimal, and your customer can easily switch between the two versions if ...