Preventing removal of a shared dll during a wsp solution uninstallation/retraction

Question

Hello

I'm working on a bunch of solutions which uses a third party DLL from vendors like Telerik. We use the dll in most of your solutions. But when i uninstall any of the solutions the dll is getting removed from the assembly. This is a very unfortunate behavior.

I guess even putting the dll in the bin folder wont help it. Because i can use multiple solutions in a same web application. In that case if i remove on solution it is removing the dll from bin folder too.

What is the workaround for this ugly issue?

Answer 1

This is indeed painful. You could consider merging 3rd party DLLs in using ilmerge. Additional approaches can be found in Muhimbi's free SharePoint Coding Guidelines (Chapters 8 and 9)