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Using GAC

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I still get questions about whether to use GAC or not.

People point to me Chris Sells's article Avoid the GAC.

Chris' article does not represent Microsoft's official stand.

We recommend people to put assemblies to GAC whenever make sense.

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    May 21, 2005
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    May 21, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    May 21, 2005
    If you guys can at least have some name in the comment, that will be great. As it is now, I am forced to use "anony1", "anony2":)

    Anonymous2,

    I know it is not useful. I don't want my statement to affect people's judgement. This post is to clear the fact that Microsoft does not recommend people to avoid the GAC.

    The current implementation of .Net framework is not friendly to network applications. This is a well known fact. People are working to make it better in the future version.