DLLs once deployed in GAC (normally located at c:\windows\assembly) can’t be viewed or used as a normal DLL file. They can’t be directly referenced from VS project. Developers usually keep a copy of the original DLL file and refer to it in the project at development (design) time, which uses the assembly...

In many .NET projects, the assembly requires to be stongly named. Actually every project should be stongly named in .NET development for it's numerous advantages. Though I'll not talk on the benefits of stong names here. I have seen that in many stongly named projects, a SNK (Strong Name Key) file...