The other day I had to migrate a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 application to SharePoint 2010. This very simple database application uses a generated datalayer. This means, in this particular case, that the datalayer components of the application are in seperate DLL’s. I wanted to deploy these DLL’s to the BIN folder of the webapplication instead of to the Global Assembly Cache. This way I don’t need to put third party code in the GAC, and I have more control over what the code is allowed and not allowed to do. More...