Accessing dlls from gac - Visual Basic .NET

Hi

What are the advantages of storing ones class project dlls in gac? How can
one access these dlls?

Thanks

Regards

Nov 21 '05 #1

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The GAC is a deployment feature to allow DLLs to be shared among the
applications (but allowing versioning). If your DLLs are not shared, IMO
it's better to keep them private in the application's folder. The run-time
has a probing system to find and load DLLs:

How the Runtime Locates Assemblies
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...assemblies.asp

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Hi

What are the advantages of storing ones class project dlls in gac? How can
one access these dlls?

Thanks

Regards

Nov 21 '05 #2

John

Thanks for that. I do want to share my dll among several apps. So I have a
dll MyClass.dll in the 'C:\Windows\Ass embly' folder. The sink file is
MyClass.snk. So how do I access functions in the MyClass.dll from my vb.net
apps?

Thanks

Regards
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The GAC is a deployment feature to allow DLLs to be shared among the
applications (but allowing versioning). If your DLLs are not shared, IMO
it's better to keep them private in the application's folder. The run-time
has a probing system to find and load DLLs:

How the Runtime Locates Assemblies
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...assemblies.asp

--

Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero

MZ-Tools: Productivity add-ins for Visual Studio .NET, VB6, VB5 and VBA
You can code, design and document much faster.
Free resources for add-in developers:
http://www.mztools.com

"John" <Jo**@nospam.in fovis.co.uk> escribió en el mensaje
news:eH******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...
Hi

What are the advantages of storing ones class project dlls in gac? How
can one access these dlls?

Thanks

Regards

Nov 21 '05 #3

Carlos J. Quintero [.NET MVP]

The .snk file is not a "sink" file (AFAIK) but the acronym of Strong Name
Key, which is the file used to sign the assembly.

To access MyClass.dll from your VS.NET project, just add a reference to it
(References node of the Solution Explorer), Add Reference context menu,
browsing it in your file system. During development, the Dll should reside
in some folder outside the GAC (the GAC is only a deployment feature, not a
development feature). When referenced, the dll will be copied to the "bin"
output folder of your .NET app, to be located by the app at run time. At
deployment time, since it will be in the GAC, it does not need to be along
with the app executable.
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Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero

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"John" <Jo**@nospam.in fovis.co.uk> escribió en el mensaje
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Thanks for that. I do want to share my dll among several apps. So I have a
dll MyClass.dll in the 'C:\Windows\Ass embly' folder. The sink file is
MyClass.snk. So how do I access functions in the MyClass.dll from my
vb.net apps?

Thanks

Regards

Nov 21 '05 #4

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