"Bill Menees" <Bill@blah.com> wrote in message
news:Oiv%23UjjbDHA.2684@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Is there any way to completely disable the download cache? I'm a
developer
> doing a lot of COM interop, and the download cache makes my life hell. It
> behaves better in .NET 1.1 than it did in .NET 1.0, but it still uses old
> cached versions occasionally when there are newer versions on disk. This
> has caused me and my team countless hours of debugging frustration because
> it seems random as to when it will use a cached version instead of a newer
> version.
>
> I'm not pulling files from other machines. All the files are local with a
> codebase like "file://c:\blah". The loader should totally be able to see
> that there's a newer version on disk, and it should always use the latest
> version. It also shouldn't ever put multiple versions of the same file in
> the download cache when they have the same name, version, culture, and key
> token. I've ended up with 15 different versions of the same file in the
DL
> cache with identical display names.
>
> I just want a way to turn this annoying download cache off on my machine.
> This affects me daily, and it affects others on my development team as
well.
> The DL cache may be fine for a production system, but it stinks for
> development where interfaces are still changing.
>
> I originally hoped that DEVPATH would help, but it just caused other
> problems. DEVPATH is too much of an override. I just want a way to skip
> the download cache. Everything else about the .NET loader should continue
> to function normally.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill Menees
>
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