Comments on: Code cannot find reference to assembly in GAC http://amargalla.com/Blog/dotnet/68-code-cannot-find-reference-to-assembly-in-gac Business, Life and SharePoint Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:10:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: http:// http://amargalla.com/Blog/dotnet/68-code-cannot-find-reference-to-assembly-in-gac/comment-page-1#comment-93 http:// Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:45:10 +0000 /blog/archive/2006/09/29/code-cannot-find-reference-to-assembly-in-gac.aspx#comment-93 It seems to me, and so far no one is picking up on this, (I've been scouring the web for a while now) I think the GAC is meant for a production enviornment rather than a developer's. I assume the GAC is to save time when updating a .dll. If you have 5 sites that all use the ajaxtoolkit.dll in production, you can just update 1 file instead of 5. But in development you have to go through a separate step to use a custom GAC file. If you look at the references window, none of those files paths point to the GAC It seems to me, and so far no one is picking up on this, (I’ve been scouring the web for a while now) I think the GAC is meant for a production enviornment rather than a developer’s. I assume the GAC is to save time when updating a .dll. If you have 5 sites that all use the ajaxtoolkit.dll in production, you can just update 1 file instead of 5. But in development you have to go through a separate step to use a custom GAC file. If you look at the references window, none of those files paths point to the GAC

]]> By: http:// http://amargalla.com/Blog/dotnet/68-code-cannot-find-reference-to-assembly-in-gac/comment-page-1#comment-92 http:// Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:08:24 +0000 /blog/archive/2006/09/29/code-cannot-find-reference-to-assembly-in-gac.aspx#comment-92 Hi, I m developing a Pocket PC Application which uses Sql Server Mobile. I am facing the same problem. In Pocket PC Application, there is no web.config file. I can see that the assembly which my application is looking for is in "c:\windows\assembly" folder. I want to ask you how to set reference to the assembly which is installed in GAC. Regards, Milind Hi,
I m developing a Pocket PC Application which uses Sql Server Mobile. I am facing the same problem. In Pocket PC Application, there is no web.config file. I can see that the assembly which my application is looking for is in “c:\windows\assembly” folder. I want to ask you how to set reference to the assembly which is installed in GAC.

Regards,
Milind

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