May 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1272 pages
61h 18m
English
A common way for referring to assemblies available in the GAC is saying that they are installed into the GAC. By the way, installing an assembly to the GAC simply means making the assembly recognizable by the GAC and by the .NET Framework while the physical file stays in its original location. Suppose you have an assembly named C:\MyAssemblies\MyLibrary.dll and you want to install this assembly into the GAC. The installation procedure simply adds to the GAC metadata information for the assembly but does not copy the file to the GAC; instead, MyLibrary.Dll remains in C:\MyAssemblies. Installing and uninstalling assemblies to and from the GAC is a step that you have to divide in two parts: development time ...
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