Assembly Location

To understand where assemblies are located, you must consider that they are generally divided into private assemblies and shared assemblies. Private assemblies are standalone assemblies or assemblies that reside exclusively in the same folder of the application that holds a reference. This is a common scenario and makes the deployment easier because you just need to distribute the content of the application folder (known as XCopy deployment). Every application holding a reference to a private assembly needs to have a copy of the assembly inside its folder. This means that if you have 10 applications referencing the assembly, you will also have 10 copies of the assembly. Shared assemblies are instead files with a digital signature ...

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