Deployment in Windows Forms Controls

15 Jul 20261 minute to read

Copy Local

Copying assemblies in the local folder is supported by the Syncfusion assembly reference in the Solutions Explorer. It can be achieved by setting its Copy Local property of the reference to True. So, that the Syncfusion assemblies are copied to the Release/Bin and Debug/Bin folders. This deployment consists of copying the EXE, the assembly, and the XML files to the client machines, similar to that of a manual copy.

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GAC

Through Syncfusion installer, Syncfusion assemblies are installed in the GAC of the developer machines. Also Syncfusion’s AssemblyManager helps to add or remove the Syncfusion assemblies to or from GAC.

Installed Location

The following table summarizes the Assemblies/ Samples and their installed locations.

Assemblies / Samples Installed location
GAC C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL
Assemblies C:\Program Files (x86)\Syncfusion\Essential Studio\Windows\34.1.29\Assemblies
Precompiled Assemblies C:\Program Files (x86)\Syncfusion\Essential Studio\Windows\34.1.29\precompiledassemblies
Samples C:\Users\Public\Documents\Syncfusion\Windows\34.1.29

NOTE

In the above section, the latest Essential Studio version details have been provided. The user can refer to the installed Essential Studio version instead of the mentioned version.