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Asked: 2026-05-11T01:36:03+00:00

I need to use a dll in my asp.net application. How do I load

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I need to use a dll in my asp.net application. How do I load a dll not from a bin directory?

Perhaps I should mention that the application is a mixture of asp code and asp.net code. so, when I develop it on my machine, I place a dll in the bin directory, but after I move the code to the live environment, I don’t want to have a separate bin directory for every piece that’s using asp.net.

All I am moving is .aspx and .aspx.cs files. Is there a way to load a dll NOT FROM /bin (specify it with ‘using’ statement)? Looks like it automatically looks in the /bin….

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  1. .net app looks in the /bin of the project, and the GAC (Global Assembly Cache) where you put system shared DLL-s.

    If your app is one .net app (configured in IIS as one app), but you have aspx files in subfolders, they should see the root /bin folder. i’d stick with keeping dlls in /bin, if that isn’t several tenths of bins (which would mean that you have a problem with your app organization).

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