CHAPTER 14 BUILDING AND CONFIGURING CLASS LIBRARIES
Figure 14-20. The shared CarLibrary assembly in the GAC
Consuming a Shared Assembly
When you are building applications that use a shared assembly, the only difference from consuming a
private assembly is in how you reference the library using Visual Studio. In reality, there is no difference
as far as the tool is concerned—you still use the Add Reference dialog box.
When you need to reference a private assembly, you could use the Browse button to navigate to the
correct subdirectory of the GAC. However, you can also simply navigate to the location of the strongly
named assembly (such as the /bin/d V'Vrf