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Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition
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Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition

by Andrew Troelsen
May 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1752 pages
41h 17m
English
Apress
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14.7. Understanding Shared Assemblies

Now that you understand how to deploy and configure a private assembly, you can begin to examine the role of a shared assembly. Like a private assembly, a shared assembly is a collection of types and (optional) resources. The most obvious difference between shared and private assemblies is the fact that a single copy of a shared assembly can be used by several applications on the same machine.

Consider all the applications created in this text that required you to set a reference to System.Windows.Forms.dll. If you were to look in the application directory of each of these clients, you would not find a private copy of this .NET assembly. The reason is that System.Windows.Forms.dll has been deployed as a ...

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