Can you place two .dll files with the same name in GAC (Global Assembly Cache)?

Posted by Raja on 5/6/2008 | Category: .NET Framework Interview questions | Views: 17158

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Yes, provided both have different versions.

GAC is a Folder that contains .dll that have strong name. So we can keep myproject.dll and myproject.dll two files into GAC with different version like 1.0.0.0 and 1.0.0.1

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Posted by: Rajeev.Shukla on: 11/24/2011 | Points: 10

To solve the Dll Hell Problem , The concept of dll versioning came into light.
To do the same in GAC(Global Assembly Cache), we can put more than one dlls having same name but having
different versions.

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