Just wondering if it is perfectly straight-forward and safe to have a .dll 
installed in the GAC on a Web server - and have multiple Web sites make use 
of the .dll.

Until now I've been XCopying all files for each Web site - including 
duplicating .dlls amongst the sites. I was wondering if I would benefit from 
moving the common assemblies to the GAC or continue duplicating them amongst 
Web sites.

Would a dll installed in the GAC load into each Web site's AppDomain just as 
if it were installed in the site's bin directory?

Thanks.

Hi,
as you have mentioned this more about securing your application and web 
server than about anything else. Assembly in GAC runs always in FullTrust 
mode and by default can be called only by fully trusted callers - you can 
change this behavior by applying assembly:AllowPartialyTrustedCallers so 
partialy trusted web application can also use this assembly.  The question is 
if this is really way which you want to go because any assembly running on 
your machine can then use that assembly installed in GAC. 

Installing assembly to GAC can generaly reduce deployment tasks and allow 
you to control versioning in much easier way. But from the security view it 
should not be the best way to go.

Regards,
Ladislav


"Smithers" wrote:


> Just wondering if it is perfectly straight-forward and safe to have a .dll 
> installed in the GAC on a Web server - and have multiple Web sites make use 
> of the .dll.
> 
> Until now I've been XCopying all files for each Web site - including 
> duplicating .dlls amongst the sites. I was wondering if I would benefit from 
> moving the common assemblies to the GAC or continue duplicating them amongst 
> Web sites.
> 
> Would a dll installed in the GAC load into each Web site's AppDomain just as 
> if it were installed in the site's bin directory?
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> 
> 

If it works, sounds fine to me. Just remember that when you've got a GAC'ed 
assembly and you need to change things, you'll now have additional deployment 
/ maintenance issues to deal with.
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"Smithers" wrote:


> Just wondering if it is perfectly straight-forward and safe to have a .dll 
> installed in the GAC on a Web server - and have multiple Web sites make use 
> of the .dll.
> 
> Until now I've been XCopying all files for each Web site - including 
> duplicating .dlls amongst the sites. I was wondering if I would benefit from 
> moving the common assemblies to the GAC or continue duplicating them amongst 
> Web sites.
> 
> Would a dll installed in the GAC load into each Web site's AppDomain just as 
> if it were installed in the site's bin directory?
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> 
>