[.net] How to view the Folder and Files in GAC?

You install as assemblies by using:

  • A setup program, that you author for your application.
  • Using the gacutil.exe tool with the -i option from the command line.
  • Dropping the assembly in %windir%\Assembly (only up to .NET 3.5, CLR 2.0)

You view the content of the GAC using:

  • The gacutil.exe tool with the -l option.
  • For .NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 (CLR 2.0) browsing to %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).

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