gac

I've registered a dll in my local GAC using the GACUtil which comes with VS2010 (version 4ish) I can perform gacutil /l xxx and it finds the dll I am aware from various other posts that Framework 4 has it's own GAC and sure enough the file can be located in the directories within C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\assembly The problem for me, is that the .NET tab on the Add Reference dialogbox does not show my "GAC'ed" assembly. I've made sure that the projects properties are using the same version of the 4.0 framework, but I am currently at a loss. Has anyone else had this problem? Cheers in advance

We have 3 software products which use the same .net dlls(code + legacy). All these use common functionality present across 3/4 dlls. i wanted to know how and where to deploy these dlls. And which is the most standard way of doing this. S1] Along with each product in its install dir -- probably easiest way to do. (but if any updates are to happen in the shared dll ..it has to be done for all 3 dlls.) S2]Put it in common files folder? S3] Does System GAC help in this? (Put all 3 in GAC and the code is shared.but im worried about versioning?) Also how to build a deployable setup for such projects

Every time I do an edit on my Library Class, I compile it for get the updated DLL. But for get the effective edit on the project which uses this Library, I have to do the command : gacutil –I <assembly name > and recycle the pool. Recycling the pool can be ok, but can I automate that process of gacutil ? Is there a way on VS or no solution? I need to do this every time? If you keep updating that project, In that case you can add build event to GAC automatically on that particular project using following post built event.Under Build Event in project properties just you can add the following