Assembly Probing

Shared assemblies don’t have to be installed in the GAC; as an alternative, assembly probing specifies a set of application subdirectories to search when attempting to locate an assembly. The probing information is included in the application configuration file.

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For more general information about configuration files, consult Appendix C.

The following configuration file demonstrates the use of probing:

<configuration>
    <runtime>
        <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
            <probing privatePath="dir1;dir2\subdirectory;dir3"/>
        </assemblyBinding>
    </runtime>
</configuration>

This example specifies that assemblies should be searched for in the dir1, dir2\subdirectory, and dir3 directories, relative to the location ...

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