How can I force .NET to use a local copy of an assembly that's in the GAC

Question

I have a .NET assembly that (for reasons outside my control) must be in the GAC. However, the same assembly is used by another program, which has a its own copy of

Answer 1

Have you tried Assembly.LoadFromFile()? This is a manual thing to do, but should load your assembly into memory before it is needed. .NET will then use the one in memory instead of hunting for it.

Another way would be if the local assembly was unsigned, you could differentiate it that way.

Rob