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Scratching Our Head So Much, We’re Going Bald
Not that we’ve studied it carefully or anything, but we really find ourselves not understanding the .NET GAC. On our development box, we naturally have no trouble building and running our various web applications. Like every good developer, we muck about with our dev box so much we could never untangle the strands and replicate the environment faithfully. However, we’re still not sure why we had to register the MySQL Connector dll on our integration server (and here we use the word “server” loosely). We included the appropriate dll file in what seemed to be all the appropriate places, but kept getting the dread error about how the “manifest definition . . . does not match”. We took a look at the GAC on the integration server using gacutil, saw that the MySQL Connector was not listed, and figured we’d just stick it in the GAC. That did the trick, but we’re still not sure why it was not working before.

Labels: .net, coding, frustration, GRB, microsoft