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As you can see, the  element is nested within the  element,

which makes use of the name and publicKeyToken attributes to specify the friendly name as associ-

ated publicKeyToken values. The  element itself specifies the version and location (via the

href property) of the assembly to load. If you were to delete version 2.0.0.0 of CarLibrary.dll from

the GAC, this client would still run successfully, as the CLR is able to locate the external assembly

under C:\MyAsms.

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Note

If you place assemblies at random locations on your development machine, you are in effect re-creating

the system registry (and the related DLL hell), given that if you move or rename the folder containing your binaries,

the current bind will fail. Given this point, use 

with caution.

The  element can also be helpful when referencing assemblies located on a remote

networked machine. Assume you have permission to access a folder located at http://www.

IntertechTraining.com. To download the remote *.dll to the GAC’s download cache on your loca-

tion machine, you could update the  element as follows:

href="http://www.IntertechTraining.com/Assemblies/CarLibrary.dll" />

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