How do I reference an assembly located in the GAC?

[rsine]

I created my first shared assembly and installed it to the GAC using
gacutil. Now, I have another assembly I want to reference the shared
assembly. Adding the reference has me a bit stumped since I cannot
select it from the assembly folder. How do I go about adding a
reference to the assembly located in the GAC?

-Thanks

[Mattias Sjögren]

>How do I go about adding a

>reference to the assembly located in the GAC?

You don't. Reference a copy of it that's located outside the GAC. The
CLR will still load it from the GAC at runtime.
Mattias

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[rsine]

Thanks Mattias.
Mattias Sjögren wrote:

How do I go about adding a
reference to the assembly located in the GAC?

You don't. Reference a copy of it that's located outside the GAC. The
CLR will still load it from the GAC at runtime.
Mattias

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