I recently redesigned many of my existing applications, and now I'm looking to remove some of the deployment.
an existing installer application installs everything in the application folder (excluding a couple of configuration files that are in a subfolder). However, I have several applications that use some common assemblies, and my goal is to transfer these specific assemblies to the "Normal Files" folder in the program file directory.
NB: I read a lot about the GAC , but I have no experience with it, and also read some horror stories, so I try until you get a simple solution.
I managed to install the assemblies in the Shared Files folder, but as a result (typical IT) I broke my application! If I copy assemblies back to the application folder, it works great, so the problem is clearly related to how my application refers to assemblies.
To install the installer to install assemblies in the Shared Files folder, I simply updated the property of Foldereach assembly in the list Detected Dependencies. My thoughts were when I did this so that the installer somehow updated my application to tell him to look in this folder for them, but this does not seem to be the case.
What exactly am I doing wrong here?
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