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Chapter 14. Configuring .NET Assemblies > Consuming a Shared Assembly
14.8. 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 2010. In reality, there is no difference as far as the tool is concerned—you still use the Add Reference dialog box. However, this dialog box will not allow you to reference the assembly by browsing to the C:\Windows\assembly folder, which is specific to .NET 3.5 and earlier.
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Seasoned .NET developers may recall that even when you navigated to C:\Windows\assembly, the Visual Studio Add Reference dialog refused to let you reference shared libraries! Because of this, developers had to maintain a separate copy of the library, simply for the purpose of referencing the assembly. The story under Visual Studio 2010 is much nicer. Read on...
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