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Answer 1

+1 A:

No, you cannot. Maybe the GAC will work.

John Sheehan 2008-12-17 21:25:33

Yes the GAC was an option, the one problem there is it would complicate our deployment process. That would be my last resort option.

Agile Noob 2008-12-17 21:36:40

Answer 2

A:

This CH article outlines how to go about setting up the web.config to probe for multiple bins, maybe this could help:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000131.html

lush 2008-12-17 21:26:49

this only supports subdirectories, not external ones http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/823z9h8w.aspx

John Sheehan 2008-12-17 21:31:05

Answer 3

+1 A:

You can. You will need to modify the config file for your application to probe the location:

<runtime>
  <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
    <probing privatePath="MyCoolNewPath/bin" />
  </assemblyBinding>
</runtime>

schmoopy 2008-12-17 21:27:27

probing.PrivatePath does not allow paths outside of the root ("Specifies application base subdirectories for the common language runtime to search when loading assemblies."), so they're not external

John Sheehan 2008-12-17 21:30:34

I agree with John, would be great if you could just say <probing privatePath="../MyCoolNewPath/bin" />, but it doesn't work that way. This method is meant to give you the ability to override global libraries inside of the local folder. In other words this is the reverse of what I'm looking for.

Agile Noob 2008-12-17 21:38:36

gotcha, thank you for the clarification.

schmoopy 2009-02-07 02:33:29

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