Comments on: Referencing GAC Assemblies With Visual Studio 2005 http://kenkopczyk.com/2009/08/15/referencing-gac-assemblies-with-visual-studio-2005/ Hurdles in .NET WinForms Development Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:50:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ken http://kenkopczyk.com/2009/08/15/referencing-gac-assemblies-with-visual-studio-2005/#comment-11 Ken Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:42:39 +0000 http://kenkopczyk.com/?p=185#comment-11 Creating a publisher policy: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dz32563a(VS.80).aspx Creating a publisher policy: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dz32563a(VS.80).aspx

]]> By: Ken http://kenkopczyk.com/2009/08/15/referencing-gac-assemblies-with-visual-studio-2005/#comment-10 Ken Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:31:27 +0000 http://kenkopczyk.com/?p=185#comment-10 If you have Foo.dll 1.0 and Foo.dll 2.0 installed in your GAC <b>and</b> they are backwards compatible, you can install a publisher policy file into the GAC which will redirect calls from 1.0 to 2.0: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7wd6ex19(VS.80).aspx However, if they are not backwards compatible, you need to manually change the project references to hit the newest version. Tip: When using the trick demonstrated above, VS will pick the newest version of the assembly for you. Hope that helps! If you have Foo.dll 1.0 and Foo.dll 2.0 installed in your GAC and they are backwards compatible, you can install a publisher policy file into the GAC which will redirect calls from 1.0 to 2.0: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7wd6ex19(VS.80).aspx

However, if they are not backwards compatible, you need to manually change the project references to hit the newest version. Tip: When using the trick demonstrated above, VS will pick the newest version of the assembly for you.

Hope that helps!

]]> By: Mark http://kenkopczyk.com/2009/08/15/referencing-gac-assemblies-with-visual-studio-2005/#comment-8 Mark Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:09:39 +0000 http://kenkopczyk.com/?p=185#comment-8 If all of your programs use the GAC's version of an assembly are they locked in to a specific version of said assembly? Is there a way to configure them to use the latest version? If all of your programs use the GAC’s version of an assembly are they locked in to a specific version of said assembly? Is there a way to configure them to use the latest version?

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