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Consuming a Shared Assembly

When you are building applications that make use of a shared assembly, the only difference from

consuming a private assembly is in how you reference the library using Visual Studio 2008. In real-

ity, there is no difference as far as the tool is concerned (you still make use of the Add Reference

dialog box). What you must understand is that this dialog box will 

not allow you to reference the

assembly by browsing to the C:\Windows\Assembly folder. Any efforts to do so will be in vain, as

you cannot reference the assembly you have highlighted.

When you need to reference an assembly that has been deployed to the GAC, you will need to

browse to the \bin\Debug directory of the 

original project via the Browse tab (see Figure 15-22).

Figure 15-22.

You must reference shared assemblies by navigating to the project’s \bin\Debug directory.

This (somewhat annoying) fact aside, create a new C# Console Application named

SharedCarLibClient and exercise your types as you wish:

using CarLibrary;

namespace SharedCarLibClient

{

class Program

{

static void Main(string[] args)

{

Console.WriteLine("***** Shared Assembly Client *****");

SportsCar c = new SportsCar();

c.TurboBoost();

Console.ReadLine();

}

}

}

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