I have a DLL that I created from a Web Control library project that I want to use in a different project. I am having trouble figuring out exactly how to get the DLL registered (or added to the GAC) on the development machine, development server and production server.

How can I add a reference to the DLL to the project on the servers without installing VS.NET and opening the project locally?

What is the best way to organize my DLLs? Should I include them with each project, or leave them in a central location? And if they stay in a central location, how can I update my projects to recognize their location when the project moves from my development machine to the development server and then into production?

My current problem is that I have a project that was developed on my laptop and has now been moved to a pre-production server (the server isn't in the production environment yet, but it will be shortly). After copying the project files into a web created on the server, I want to open the project and clean up any references to my laptop's computer name and replace them with the propert server names in production. When I do this, I get generic HTML containers for the controls in the IDE and the application does not run because it doesn't know where the DLL is. Is there a way to add the DLL as a reference to the project while it is on a web server?

Any insight is appreciated.