Question on Installing

[AgedMan]

I'm coming to Spring.NET from the Java side and I'm a bit new to C#, so my question may be naive. What does installing do for me beyond copying the DLLs to disk? Is it modifying the GAC? Changing something in the registry?

If I move from one release to another, do I need to do anything more than update appropriate paths? Can I pick which DLLs I want or need and ignore the rest? (I'm not using web services, so IIS interaction isn't an issue for me).

Thanks for your help!

Russell.

[Nop]

Hi Russell.
. What does installing do for me beyond copying the DLLs to disk? Is it modifying the GAC? Changing something in the registry?
Copying the dlls is a simple copying files to your disk. You need to use a special util to install dll to the GAC. Registry will not be changed.
If I move from one release to another, do I need to do anything more than update appropriate paths? Can I pick which DLLs I want or need and ignore the rest?
I need to update appropriate paths only. You can pick which dlls you want.

For more information I can advice the following book CLR via C#, Second Edition (http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/6522.aspx).

Work with dlls (assemblies) is simple as work with jars (only you can forget environment paths :) ).
To start work with spring framework .net you need to copy spring's dlls to disk and to add references to them in your project. In future if you want to update you need to renew dll's.

Best regards,
Nop