GAC and User Controls

[Manuel Lopez]

Hello,

We have user controls that we want to share between
applications.

We have a web app that has only the ascx, this is a sub
virtual root of all our applications.

What we have done is generated a dll will all the codehind
of the User Controls.

This dll is registered in the GAC, and the other
applications reference the location of the dll.(It doesn´t
copy the assembly, which is what it´s supposed to do)

The problem is when we load a page that uses one of these
user controls, we get an error that it can load type:

<%@ Control Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false"
Inherits="UserControls.Header"
TargetSchema="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5
" %>

If i copy the UserControls.dll to the BIN folder of the
Web application everything works fine.

But then what it´s the use of the GAC'ed dll?

Is it possible to inherit in the control directive from a
dll that is not in the bin folder?

Many Thanks,

Manuel

[Bruce Johnson]

You probably need to indicate to ASP.NET to look in the
GAC for the assembly in question. This is done by adding
an <assemblies> tag to the <compilation> section in
web.config. For example.

<compilation defaultLanguage="c#" debug="true">
<assemblies>
<add assembly="ObjectSharp.Logging,
Version=1.0.202.720, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=ebe272337da14566" />
</assemblies>
</compilation>

Keep in mind that the assembly attribute needs to be on a
single line, regardless of how this breaks in this
message.

Bruce Johnson
http://www.ObjectSharp.com/Bruce

-----Original Message-----
Hello,

We have user controls that we want to share between
applications.

We have a web app that has only the ascx, this is a sub
virtual root of all our applications.

What we have done is generated a dll will all the codehind of the User Controls.

This dll is registered in the GAC, and the other
applications reference the location of the dll.(It doesn´t copy the assembly, which is what it´s supposed to do)

The problem is when we load a page that uses one of these user controls, we get an error that it can load type:

<%@ Control Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false"
Inherits="UserControls.Header"
TargetSchema="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/i e5" %>

If i copy the UserControls.dll to the BIN folder of the
Web application everything works fine.

But then what it´s the use of the GAC'ed dll?

Is it possible to inherit in the control directive from a dll that is not in the bin folder?

Many Thanks,

Manuel
.