Hi all,
First i have to state this is my first entry ever in a forum. So
please be forgiving...
I am a newbe to dotnet versioning...
The Situation is the following: Our application is using an external
managed .dll. Whos version is changing from time to time. The
interface is not changing at all. As i have included this dll in my
project i have to rebuild my application everytime the version number
is augmenting : 1.0.x.y. The major and minor build version do not
change.
using .net compact framework 1.1
Isnt it possible to state a policy that if x and y are changing the
clr still accepts these version numbers without recompiling my
application?
For any help thanks in advance
Ben
6  3543 
The reason you have to recompile is that when you compile, you are going and
getting a copy of the .dll and bringing it locally into your application.
This only happens when you compile so, if you want the newer assembly, you
have to recompile.
Now, if the assembly were to become a shared assembly that is registered
into the GAC, then all you'd need to do is update the GAC with the new
assembly and your application would continue to run without any work needed.
-Scott
"Ben" <be************ *@gmail.comwrot e in message
news:11******** **************@ l77g2000hsb.goo glegroups.com.. .
Hi all,
First i have to state this is my first entry ever in a forum. So
please be forgiving...
I am a newbe to dotnet versioning...
The Situation is the following: Our application is using an external
managed .dll. Whos version is changing from time to time. The
interface is not changing at all. As i have included this dll in my
project i have to rebuild my application everytime the version number
is augmenting : 1.0.x.y. The major and minor build version do not
change.
using .net compact framework 1.1
Isnt it possible to state a policy that if x and y are changing the
clr still accepts these version numbers without recompiling my
application?
For any help thanks in advance
Ben
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:44:15 -0400, Scott M. wrote:
The reason you have to recompile is that when you compile, you are going and
getting a copy of the .dll and bringing it locally into your application.
This only happens when you compile so, if you want the newer assembly, you
have to recompile.
Now, if the assembly were to become a shared assembly that is registered
into the GAC, then all you'd need to do is update the GAC with the new
assembly and your application would continue to run without any work needed.
-Scott
"Ben" <be************ *@gmail.comwrot e in message
news:11******** **************@ l77g2000hsb.goo glegroups.com.. .
Really? I beg to differ. If this were the case it would re-introduce DLL
hell.
However there is a workaround if you don't want to recompile you can use a
feature called binding redirection to well ... redirect calls for one
version to another.
You can read on this here http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ngredirect.asp
--
Bits.Bytes http://bytes.thinkersroom.com
How so? If the version number is not changing and it is a shared assembly
then no copy is being made locally and the app uses the shared assembly.
"Rad [Visual C# MVP]" <no****@nospam. comwrote in message
news:1j******** ********@thinke rsroom.com...
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:44:15 -0400, Scott M. wrote:
>The reason you have to recompile is that when you compile, you are going
and
getting a copy of the .dll and bringing it locally into your application.
This only happens when you compile so, if you want the newer assembly,
you
have to recompile.
Now, if the assembly were to become a shared assembly that is registered
into the GAC, then all you'd need to do is update the GAC with the new
assembly and your application would continue to run without any work
needed.
-Scott
"Ben" <be************ *@gmail.comwrot e in message
news:11******* *************** @l77g2000hsb.go oglegroups.com. ..
Really? I beg to differ. If this were the case it would re-introduce DLL
hell.
However there is a workaround if you don't want to recompile you can use a
feature called binding redirection to well ... redirect calls for one
version to another.
You can read on this here
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ngredirect.asp
--
Bits.Bytes
http://bytes.thinkersroom.com
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:00:56 -0400, Scott M. wrote:
How so? If the version number is not changing and it is a shared assembly
then no copy is being made locally and the app uses the shared assembly.
If the version number changes (as I think the OP says) I believe it is a
valid assumption on the part of the CLR that something may have changed in
the DLL, whether or not this may actually be the case, and therefore
putting it into the GAC will not solve the ambiguity
--
Bits.Bytes http://bytes.thinkersroom.com
My bad, my first read of the OP came up with the version number NOT
changing.
"Rad [Visual C# MVP]" <no****@nospam. comwrote in message
news:v4******** ******@thinkers room.com...
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:00:56 -0400, Scott M. wrote:
>How so? If the version number is not changing and it is a shared
assembly
then no copy is being made locally and the app uses the shared assembly.
If the version number changes (as I think the OP says) I believe it is a
valid assumption on the part of the CLR that something may have changed in
the DLL, whether or not this may actually be the case, and therefore
putting it into the GAC will not solve the ambiguity
--
Bits.Bytes
http://bytes.thinkersroom.com
Did you try creating an interface for your external dll, and then try to
access it. I am talking about accessing an implementation through an
interface.
An even better solution would be to use that external dll as a web-service.
That way you won't have to rebuild your solution, so long as your interface
does not change.
Thanks,
--
Sashidhar Kokku
ikaSystems Corp
"Ben" wrote:
Hi all,
First i have to state this is my first entry ever in a forum. So
please be forgiving...
I am a newbe to dotnet versioning...
The Situation is the following: Our application is using an external
managed .dll. Whos version is changing from time to time. The
interface is not changing at all. As i have included this dll in my
project i have to rebuild my application everytime the version number
is augmenting : 1.0.x.y. The major and minor build version do not
change.
using .net compact framework 1.1
Isnt it possible to state a policy that if x and y are changing the
clr still accepts these version numbers without recompiling my
application?
For any help thanks in advance
Ben
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