Information Technology Reference
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Private Deployment of an Assembly
To deploy a program on a target machine can be as simple as creating a directory on the
machine and copying the application to it. If the application doesn't need any other assemblies
such as DLLs, or the required DLLs are in the same directory, the program should work just fine
where it is. Programs deployed this way are called
private assemblies
, and this method of
deployment is called
xcopy
deployment.
Private assemblies can be placed in almost any directory, and are self-sufficient as long as
all the files on which they depend are in the same directory or a subdirectory. As a matter of
fact, you could have several directories in various parts of the file system, each with the identi-
cal set of assemblies, and they would all work fine in their various locations.
Some important things to know about private assembly deployment are the following:
The directory in which the private assemblies are placed is called the
application
directory
.
A private assembly can be either strongly named or weakly named.
There is no need to register components in the registry.
To uninstall a private assembly, just delete it from the file system.
