How to have installer instal asmbly to gac

[David T.]

How can a .NET dll be installed so that it appears under the .NET tab in the
Add Reference dialog? How can this be done in a deployment project?

[Sahil Malik]

Assuming you are using the setup and deployment project thru VStudio 2003 -
you can add a special folder called "Global Assembly Cache" and place your
assembly in there.

The installer MSI will end up putting that into the GAC for you.

Here's the cool thing - GAC supports side by side versions, but if you
wanted to emulate old dll behavior by enforcing only the latest version to
exist - you can control all that thru "Publisher policy"

- Sahil Malik
http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sahilmalik


"David T." <Da***********@AdsorptionProcessModeling.com> wrote in message
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How can a .NET dll be installed so that it appears under the .NET tab in
the Add Reference dialog? How can this be done in a deployment project?

[Shiva]

Another option is to add a sub-key underneath
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio \7.1\AssemblyFolders with
the Default value pointing to your assembly install folder.

"David T." <Da***********@AdsorptionProcessModeling.com> wrote in message
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How can a .NET dll be installed so that it appears under the .NET tab in the
Add Reference dialog? How can this be done in a deployment project?

[David T.]

"Sahil Malik" <co*****************@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Assuming you are using the setup and deployment project thru VStudio
2003 - you can add a special folder called "Global Assembly Cache" and
place your assembly in there.
This gets the dlls in the GAC but maybe that isn't what I need. I want the
dlls to appear under the .NET tab of the Add Reference dialog box. How can I
make this happen?

By the way thank you for your help with step one.


The installer MSI will end up putting that into the GAC for you.

Here's the cool thing - GAC supports side by side versions, but if you
wanted to emulate old dll behavior by enforcing only the latest version to
exist - you can control all that thru "Publisher policy"

- Sahil Malik
http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sahilmalik


"David T." <Da***********@AdsorptionProcessModeling.com> wrote in message
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How can a .NET dll be installed so that it appears under the .NET tab in
the Add Reference dialog? How can this be done in a deployment project?