Why do you say that? Craig's solution works for me:
http://discuss.develop.com/archives/wa.exe?A2=ind0206b&L=advanced-dotnet&F=& S=&P=736 (for those reading offline, the solution was to specify the fully qualified assembly name - this is required when the control resides within a component that is in the GAC) Have you found problems with this technique? -- Ian Griffiths DevelopMentor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig McMurtry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You are confronted with a limitation of custom Web controls. > > > Khoi Pham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I've written an assembly contains a custom web control among other utility > classes. I've signed the assembly and registered with the gac. Inside my > web application i am able to access all the classes with in the assembly > in > my codebehinds however when trying to access the web control in my any > aspx > file I get an assembly not found error. > > I've tried adding the assembly binding nodes to the web.config file but > that doesn't seem to work either. > > If i copy the assembly to the web app's bin directory, everything works > fine. Therefore I know I'm not doing anything wrong inside the aspx > files. > > Can anyone provide any clues? You can read messages from the Advanced DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from Advanced DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.