Working with the .NET Global Assembly Cache

In this article, Dennis Salguero and Barry Dwyer take a look at the new Global Assembly Cache within .NET. It allows us to manage our DLL assemblies in an easy manner, and it provides a level of security that was not previously available when working with COM objects. This is a step-by-step tutorial that you can refer to whenever you create a new assembly that you want to use across different .NET applications. You will find this article most useful when you get beyond the initial stages of familiarity with .NET and begin to duplicate some of the work that you have accomplished with your other development tools.