Updating a dll in the GAC that contains aspx pages for a Web application

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Forgive me coder for I have sinned. I put some code into a dll in the GAC, and now I am confused about how the GAC is really working with IIS.In our intranet environment I have several related web applications (about 10). Each application runs from a separate url, and potentially runs in its own app pool. For now all of the apps are on the same server, but that is not required. This setup allows us to control, develop and migrate each app separately. However, there are several parts of each app that we wanted to be common across all of our applications (master pages, logon pages, menus ect.) The request from management was that changes to these files could be universal, and would take effect without having to re-compile and re-migrate each web app. There are lots of ways to accomplish this task, and despite warnings to avoid the GAC, this really seemed like a case where using a Virtual path provider and a dll stored in the GAC made sense.I put together a Virtual path provider, and then embedded the files and resources I needed to be common into a dll. (I could have had the VPP pull the files from a database, but I was hoping that embedding the files into the dll itself would be more performant. Complication #1I didn