What do you call a DLL that is placed on the same directory as the EXE?

问题

I need a little help in terminology.

You can put an assembly in the GAC to "share" these assembly globally in the machine. What do you call if you put the assembly in the same directory where the executable is?

I have been calling it "side-by-side" because the EXE and the DLL is "side-by-side". I've done some reading and it seems that "side-by-side" stands for something else

EDIT: Are those DLLs called "Private assemblies"?

回答1:

Side-by-side refers to two versions of the same assembly (i.e. 1.0.0.0, 1.1.0.0) being installed in the GAC at the same time.

Whether in the GAC or in the same local directory as the main application EXE assembly, this DLL assembly would be known as a dependency of the main assembly.

回答2:

One suggestion is using the terms local versions (NOT GAC) and system versions (GAC)

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