1 Chrome Version Assembly 2 3 The chrome version assembly makes it possible for load-time dependencies of 4 chrome.exe to be shipped in Chrome's version directory to ease updates (eg. 5 chrome_elf.dll). This is done by turning the version directory into a private 6 assembly which refers to any DLLs that chrome.exe needs to know about. New DLLs 7 should be added as <file> entries in "version_assembly_manifest.template". 8 9 In an ideal world, this would be done by embedding an application config in 10 chrome.exe that would refer to the proper version directory via a 11 probing\privatePath attribute (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa374182.aspx). 12 This would allow us to refer to dlls in the version directory without having to 13 make the version directory itself into an assembly. It would also avoid naming 14 conflicts (as the WinSxS dir and GAC both take precedence over private 15 assemblies when searching for dlls). Unfortunately, the probing\privatePath 16 attribute is only supported for Windows 7 and later. 17
