ASP.NET in a Nutshell

Name

<assemblies>

Synopsis

<assemblies>
   <add assembly=assemblyInfo />
   <remove assembly=assemblyInfo />
   <clear />
</assemblies>

Adds or removes assemblies to be referenced and linked during dynamic compilation of ASP.NET pages. By default, the mscorlib, System, System.Drawing, System.EnterpriseServices, System.Web, System.Data, System.Web.Services, and System.Xml assemblies are referenced during dynamic compilation, as are any assemblies located in the application directory’s bin subdirectory.

Scope

Any

Attributes

None

Child Elements

<add>

Adds an assembly specified by the assembly attribute to the list of assemblies to be linked during dynamic resource compilation.

<remove>

Removes a previously configured assembly specified by the assembly attribute from the list of assemblies to be linked during dynamic resource compilation.

<clear>

Clears all previously configured assemblies.

Example

This example shows the <add> element used by the Mobile Internet Toolkit to add the assembly System.Web.Mobile to the list of assemblies for dynamic compilation:

<assemblies>
   <add assembly="System.Web.Mobile,
      Version=1.0.3300.0,
      Culture=neutral,
      PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
</assemblies>

Notes

The asterisk (*) wildcard is used with the <add> element to indicate that all assemblies in the application’s private assembly cache (by default, the bin subdirectory of the application) should be added to the list of assemblies linked during dynamic compilation. This ensures that all members of these assemblies ...