Dragging items from toolbox to form always references GAC

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Hello all,
I am a little bit unsure if I just remember something wrong or if it is something real (kids are messing with my brain).
We use some third party tools that often change version. This is what I was used till now:
In order to add items to the toolbox I dragged the dll's (located in c:\sometools\) to the toolbar and they gave been added.
Now when I drag a tool to a form the related dll gets referenced using the path of the dll I dragged to the toolbox before (c:\sometools\somedll.dll).

When I try the same now (I am unaware if OP upgraded something on my machine) after a version change the dll that gets refernced is taken from the GAC and no lnger from the path I used to drag the items from in the first place...

Did I miss something, or is it maybe a setting in VS? I really like to get the dll's referenced from their original path rather than from the GAC.

I hope I could explain what I mean :)

Any help is kindly appreciated,
cheers
Andy

Posted 10-Jun-14 4:13am

hoernchenmeister

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 10-Jun-14 10:21am

It seems that your tools got installed in GAC too - remove them from GAC...

hoernchenmeister 10-Jun-14 10:35am

Thanks Peter for your answer.
Yes, you are right, these dll's are also installed in the GAC. But I did so with all versions before (removing the old one and adding the new one). That's where I am confused right now, because I really believe it worked like that before... All the projects that I own always reference the folder mentioned above and never the GAC...

Best regards
Andy

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