side-by-side assembly

Isolated applications and side-by-side assemblies provide a solution that reduces DLL versioning conflicts . They enable applications to safely share assemblies. For more information, see Shared Assemblies . Side-by-side assemblies are code assemblies described by manifests and authored so that multiple versions may run at the same time without conflicting with each other. When developers author manifests and write applications to use side-by-side assembly sharing , multiple assembly versions can run on the system and each application can specify which assembly version it should use. Developers can use the side-by-side assemblies provided by Microsoft, or other side-by-side assembly publishers, in their applications. For example, developers can get the functionality of the updated common controls, such as theming, by designing their applications to use the side-by-side assembly that contains Comctl32.dll 6.0. For the list of side-by-side assemblies and manifests that ship with Windows XP, see Supported Microsoft Side-by-side Assemblies . Developers can also create their own side-by-side assemblies. For more information, see Guidelines for Creating Side-by-side Assemblies . Want to try using Ask Learn to clarify or guide you through this topic? Ask Learn is an AI assistant that can answer questions, clarify concepts, and define terms using trusted Microsoft documentation.