Sharing DLLs among multiple ASP.NET Apps

[Xin Li]

Hi,

I'm fairly new to using ASP.NET, so please bare with me. I'm writing
some classes that provide a business layer functions. But these
functions need to be accessed from a series of websites hosted on IIS.
I know normally you would put the DLL inside the web app's /bin
directory. But that seems rather wasteful to copy the same DLLs over
and over again into 12 bin directories for the 12 sites that will be
hosted. Is there a better way to make the DLLs globally available?
Thanks.

Xin Li

 

[Jeremy]

The Global Assembly Cache is your friend (assuming your DLLs are .NET
assemblies - or can be wrapped inside of .NET Assemblies). Here's more:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...-us/cpguide/html/cpconglobalassemblycache.asp

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

I agree with Jeremy.
Here's more links on the GAC for you:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...html/vxconInstallingToGlobalAssemblyCache.asp
http://www.aspzone.com/articles/john/GAC/