The Global Assembly Cache tool allows you to view and manipulate the contents of the global assembly cache and download cache.
Questions tagged [gacutil]
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Install a .NET assembly without gacutil
I want to install my custom visual studio 2012 wizard with my NSIS installer but I don't know how to register the assembly. It needs gacutil.exe but this is not shipped along vs2012 as far as I know.. and it's a developer tool.
How can I do that?

Marco A.
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Can't register assembly in .Net GAC
I'm facing a problem with registering assembly to GAC. I'm using Win8 x64. I need to register it in .Net GAC. It means that assembly should appear here c:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\assembly\GAC_MSIL. In gacutil console I get message "Assembly…

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Installing a (sort-of) weakly-named .dll to the GAC
I need to migrate some programs from one server to another. In the process, I found that we were missing a .dll - I tracked it down on the original server. It was both on the file system (in what seems to be a storage directory, not linked to…

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My policy redirection on GAC is not working
I created a basic project in WinForms on which I have a .exe that loads a really simple library:
The .exe:
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
int a;
int b;
a = 7;
b = 3;
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How to get TargetPath programmatically + GacUtil registering
What do i need? I wrote some BizTalk Functoid and BizTalk Pipeline Components. But before you can use them in a mapping (Functoid) or in a pipeline (Pipeline Components) you need to copy it to a specific folder.
Copy it to the folder is not a…

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Code Analysis Using VS2012 - Missing Dll References / GAC
I'm trying to run code analysis on my project and I'm plagued by lots of DLL resolve issues.
I've already Added a few dlls to the GAC using gacutil and solved a few issues that way, however I'm seeing an error regarding a reference to…

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Permission Denied for gacutil in linux
I have the Mono gacutil on a Linux machine, CentOS 5.5, apache 2.2. I'm running as the root user. I keep getting
/usr/local/bin/gacutil: line 2: /usr/local/bin/mono: Permission denied
This is with any command from gacutil, like -l or -i. Putting…

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sudo gacutil permissions
I am trying to use gacutil on my mac. When I do I get the error:
gac directories could not be created, possibly permission issues.
So how do I get the permission, considering this is my computer?! There are two users on the computer, geoff and…

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Npgsql design time support in Visual Studio 2008
How to enable Npgsql design time support in Visual Studio 2008? I did exactly what manual says:
1) I have Npgsql.dll installed in c:\Program Files (x86)\PostgreSQL\Npgsql\ms.net3.5sp1\
2) cd into that dir and run
gacutil -i Npgsql.dll
3) Added a…

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Drag and Drop DLL to assembly folder
I dont have gacutil on the computer I have to install this assembly so can it be done instead of using gacutil?
If yes, whats the difference?
Its a .net 2.0 assembly

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How to get PublicKeyToken from GAC
I have been following this guide, which goes over adding a file to GAC with gacutil.
I have completed this step but I can't seem to read the Keytoken from the file.
It says to navigate to the assembly you added to the GAC, right click and view…

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