I have created an window application using C#. I am publishing the application which is successful. When I am trying to install the application it is showing the below error. I am seen some solu...

I've raised a connect issue for that behavior. VS 2015 copies to output GAC references of a project reference regardless of copy local setting. VS 2010 doesn't do that with the same solution &...

Newtonsoft.Json release incompatible versions with same strong name, only changing the File version. According to MSDN: Assemblies that have the same strong name should be identical. Because ...

What's the easiest way to check programmatically if an assembly is registered in the GAC (Global Assembly Cache) on the local machine? Is there some easy to use .NET API where I can give it a locat...

I have a project which needs to use NHibernate to communicate with my Oracle database. Many projects at my workplace use NHibernate, so the NHibernate assembly was placed in the Global Assembly Ca...

I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate, trying to manually copy a file into the GAC. I tried using Windows Explorer but it promptly tells me "Access is denied". I tried using the command line with elevated p...

Is there any GUI to view, add, delete assemblies in Global Assembly Cache?

I have an application developed in Visual Studio 2005 which I am deploying using ClickOnce. My solution contains two projects - a user interface layer coded in VB, and a class library coded in C#. ...

I have registered a DLL in the GAC. I can see the DLL in the path: c:\windows\asssembly; I suppose this means the DLL registerd correctly. However, if i have to use the DLL in my application, I st...

I need to create a small app or script to install a .NET assembly into the GAC. I've read there are a couple ways to do this including: using gacutil.exe executing the following line of code: ne...

I've been building .NET web applications for many years now, and I never use the GAC? What am I missing? Or am I better off staying away from it?