You install as assemblies by using:
gacutil.exe
tool with the -i
option from the command line.%windir%\Assembly
(only up to .NET 3.5, CLR 2.0)You view the content of the GAC using:
gacutil.exe
tool with the -l
option.%windir%\assembly
using the Windows Explorer.Note that the (physical) GAC location has changed for .NET 4.0. It is no longer in %windir%\Assembly
, but now in %windir%\Microsoft.NET\assembly
. However, you should never write any code that depends on the physical location anyway, because given the tools available that is hardly necessary (some "cool" homegrown system diagnostics tools aside).