Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Summary

This chapter discussed important concepts you need to know before deploying .NET applications. You saw how the .NET Framework solves the Dll Hell problem by avoiding the need of component registration and allowing the XCopy deployment. Then you saw what the global assembly cache is and how you can manage it for sharing assemblies among multiple applications. In addition, you got information on strong names and on how to apply them to your assemblies so these can be installed to the GAC. Finally, you understood how to configure Windows Registry for making custom assemblies in the GAC visible from the Add Reference dialog box in Visual Studio. All this information is important to understand how you deploy libraries, controls, and assemblies ...