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GAC

Sometimes it sense to install assemblies in the GAC.

GAC installation

Assemblies install to GAC folder %windir%\Microsoft.NET\assembly

Assemblies install to GAC with GACUtil
GACUtil -il GACFilesInstall.txt

Note: the GAC tool under:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools
"v7.1" version or newer

Assemblies files (DLLs) in GACFilesInstall.txt

Specify the path before the file name, for example: .\bin\Release\AsseblyName.dll

Important: tool GACUtil run must as administrator

An example GACFilesInstall.txt
EntityFramework.dll
SIC.dll
SOWIData.Helper.dll

VMInfoFace assemblies uninstall to GAC with GACUtil
GACUtil -ul GACAssemblyUninstall.txt

Assemblies names in GACAssemblyUninstall.txt

An example GACAssemblyUninstall.txt
EntityFramework.dll
SIC.dll
SOWIData.Helper.dll

Note: when development environment using assembly the of GAC, the code IntelliSense may not display help text because the corresponding file is missing (XML).

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