Strong Name Dependent Assemblies

Hi, Thanks to your earlier suggestion I am able to Launch VSTA, open my solution, and load the Inprocess Host to create Toolbar items.

Thsi InProcess Host assembly, ofcorse , is places in GAC.

However My toobar item needs to launch a dialog which needs to load some types from my Assemblies which I would rather not place in the GAC.

Any work arounds for this

Thanks

You may have to try a few approaches to see which one best fits your need.

--Of course, you can load assemblies explicitly in your IPH program code and provide the path.

-- Since the VSTA shell loads the IPH, I think that it can use the probe paths in its .config file.  

ie: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9\Common7\IDE\ vsta.exe.config file can contain dependent assembly paths

--For VSTA 2.0, you could try adding assemblies into these paths 

 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies

let me know if these are useful.

These may be helpful references to plan the best dicovery approach for your IPH's dependent assemblies:

 http://en.csharp-online.net/.NET_CLR_Components%E2%80%94Resolving_Names_to_Locations

http://www.summsoft.com/blogs/garyvsta/archive/2007/02/08/dependent-assembly-binding-redirect-by-version.aspx

hope this helps!