Public and Private Assemblies
An assembly can be either private (available only to the application that uses it) or public (available to all applications resident on the machine). To this point, all of the examples in this chapter have used private assemblies: They are simply shipped with the application program and stored in the application directory or one of its subdirectories. The application program generally refers only to the file name of the assembly and ships this assembly with the application.
The concept of a public assembly is probably familiar to traditional Windows programmers in the form of the system32 directory. Programs often install or upgrade critical DLLs in this directory, leading to obvious version conflicts and inevitable ...
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