At 04:23 PM 1/8/2004, Claus Brod wrote >Brandon Manchester wrote: >>In your client's app.config file you can add an <assemblyBinding> section >>that can specify things like binding redirects (for versioning), codebases, >>and probing information. > >True, but that would require changes in the config files of all clients, >wouldn't it? Our application doesn't necessarily know all its clients, >so it can't patch their config files automatically. The other >alternative would be to have users modify the client config files, but >most users will never understand the XML syntax, and don't want to fool >around with config files anyway. Another alternative is to have the >client's installation programs search for our app and modify the client >config file accordingly. > >All of those schemes break when we install a new version of our app or >just move the existing installation. > >For these reasons, we were really looking for some way to a) advertise >the fact that our app's assembly is publicly available on the system and >b) tell everybody that the code is not in the GAC, but, for instance, at >C:\Program Files\whatever\.... this way, the information about the >actual location of our assembly is recorded in only one place, making it >much easier to keep it in sync with reality (uninstallation, >installation of new versions etc etc). > >Thanks! > > Claus
When you said you didn't want to install into the GAC, I had assumed that you wanted to leave the assemblies on a publicly available network drive. If you're going to put them on each user's C: drive, what's the advantage to putting it in c:\program files\whatever\ rather than in the GAC? I can't believe it's the pain of putting a strong name on the assemblies... If you do that, "the information about the actual location of the assembly is recorded in only one place" -- it's in the GAC. If you put it in the GAC, you can have multiple versions installed at once. (Testers often think that's useful, if not a requirement for whatever deployment solution you come up with.) What's so scary about the GAC? J. Merrill / Analytical Software Corp =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentorŪ http://www.develop.com Some .NET courses you may be interested in: NEW! Guerrilla ASP.NET, 26 Jan 2004, in Los Angeles http://www.develop.com/courses/gaspdotnetls View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
