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Frankly, I prefer DLL Hell

I am attempting to do something extremely simple:
-I have an application that references multiple sets of third-party
assembly DLLs
-The third-party assemblies are not strong-named and thus (apparently)
cannot be added to the GAC or loaded from from an absolute path
-I do not want to copy all of these DLLs (there are dozens) into my
application base

I've tried everything I can think of to achieve this, but I have not been
able to get around the roadblocks that the .net framework is throwing at me.

So, is this (seemingly) very simple thing I would like to do possible with
..net?

-Brian
Jul 21 '05 #1
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I apologize - it gave me a session timeout the first time I tried to post
this and I assumed the post had failed.
Jul 21 '05 #2
Where do you want to put these files ?

If not already done, try :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...grfprobing.asp

Patrice

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I am attempting to do something extremely simple:
-I have an application that references multiple sets of third-party
assembly DLLs
-The third-party assemblies are not strong-named and thus (apparently)
cannot be added to the GAC or loaded from from an absolute path
-I do not want to copy all of these DLLs (there are dozens) into my
application base

I've tried everything I can think of to achieve this, but I have not been
able to get around the roadblocks that the .net framework is throwing at me.
So, is this (seemingly) very simple thing I would like to do possible with
.net?

-Brian

Jul 21 '05 #3
You can also do this programatically using the
AppDomain.AppendPrivatePath method.

Jul 21 '05 #4
Brian Guppy via DotNetMonster.com wrote:
So, is this (seemingly) very simple thing I would like to do possible
with .net?


You can use a subfolder in your application folder using <probing>, my
Fusion tutorial covers this and more:

http://www.grimes.demon.co.uk/workshops/fusionWS.htm

Richard
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my email ev******@zicf.bet is encrypted with ROT13 (www.rot13.org)
Jul 21 '05 #5

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