Re: Cacheing of .dll's

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On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 20:11:01 -0800, dadoffive wrote:

I have a system with 5 users running the same application. If i upgrade
.dll, when will the users be executing the new code?

Will they have to exit and re-enter the program?
Will they have to log off and back on the system?
Will all users have to log off and back on the system?
Will the terminal server (Server 2003) need to be rebooted?

Thanks!

Windows will The automatically unloads a DLL when its usage count is zero, but only after the DLL has not been used for a period of time.
This inactive period might be unacceptably long at times, especially when a extension DLL is being debugged.
For operating systems prior to Windows 2000, you can shorten the inactive period by adding the following
information to the registry.
[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer] "AlwaysUnloadDLL

My advice is that all clients exit the program and logs off, replace dll, and restart server. As it is a small amount of
users I think those steps would not impact much their work time, and it will save your time and possibility that something
can go wrong.

Regards, Frane Borozan
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