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"0x116 offset" means nothing. It could be a value that needs to be added to words or subtracted to remove some naive encoding, or anything else for that matter.
Could you post a part of the file? Is it binary or text? Could you define "mostly not"?
What vendor/software package/device does this file come from?
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Our applications use lot of custom built and third party libraries and right now each application has a private reference to these assemblies which means that the bin folder of each of these applications has the referenced assemblies copied. For e.g. Application A references log4net.dll, CustomLibA.dll, CustomLibB.dll ...
D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\ApplicationA\bin D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\ApplicationB\bin
I have the following questions about this arrangement:
1. I think this will create performance issues as the number of applications and the references grows, because, every application will load all these assemblies which will result in virtual address fragmentation. Is my assumption right?
2. Can I organize the applications such that all these applications reference the assemblies from a common folder and doesn't have a private copy in the bin folder? For e.g. the assemblies log4net.dll, CustomLibA.dll, CustomLibB.dll are organized in the following folder
and reference by the applications which are organized as follows:
D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Apps\ApplicationA D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Apps\ApplicationB
The bin folder within these applications will not have the common assemblies.
Will this work? I tried to do this by setting copy local to false, but I get 'Could not load file or assembly xxxx'.
I know that I can use GAC, but I want to avoid GAC for certain custom built libraries due to the nature of our deployment process.
Thanks, Hari Krishnan.
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A good reference for these things are the first 3 chapters of CLR via C# –  Tom Ritter May 28 '09 at 22:11
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There may be added benefits to performance and code sharing if you use the GAC. Note that having all apps refer to a common shared path will not alter the fact that each application will be loading its own copy of the assemblies into memory.
The only benefit that a shared path will give you is not having to deploy multiple copies of these assemblies.
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Though this doesn't answer both of my questions, jerryjvl does answered the first questions. Thanks. –  Tech Matrix May 29 '09 at 17:36
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you can always add other paths for the appdomain to look for references in other folders rather than bin or gac.
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depends on what framework you're using as well AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AppendPrivatePath(path) and AppDomainSetup adSetup = new AppDomainSetup(); adSetup.PrivateBinPath = path –  Brandon Grossutti May 28 '09 at 22:13
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I think the GAC is your best bet for common class libraries. You can still have custom libraries deployed to the local \bin directory.
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As long as the assemblies are strongly named. –  Max Schmeling May 28 '09 at 22:32
I agree GAC is the best place for sharing. And we are having the thrid party libraries installed in GAC. But certain custom built libraries undergo couple of releases in a month and deploying it in GAC will be cumbersome due to our deployment process. –  Tech Matrix May 29 '09 at 17:34
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Hello world,
during this weekend FD/DAM had a meeting in Essen to discuss various
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Canceling an application is currently called a "rejection". We are
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