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What is GAC and where it is located?

Chirag Satasiya

Chirag Satasiya
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    Dibyendu Saha

    GAC stands for Global Assembly Cache. GAC is the place where shared assemblies get stored in a system.In order to install an assembly to GAC one needs to use the command : gacutil.exe i Assembly name . However before doing that we need to make sure that the assembly is a strong named assembly.To sign an assembly with a strong name, you must have a public/private key pair. This public and private cryptographic key pair is used during compilation to create a strong-named assembly.We need to use: sn –k in the command prompt and then provide the public/private key pair file to the AssemblyInfo file of the dll.
    For dot net version 2.0 & 3.5 the location for GAC is : C:\Windows\assembly
    For dotnet version 4.0 and above the location for GAC is :C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly

    Dibyendu Saha
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    Eira Jeremy

    GAC stands for General Assembly of the Church of God. It is located in Cleveland, Tennessee, United States at my location

    Eira Jeremy
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    Rushikesh shahapurkar
    It is located in %windir%\assembly (for example, C:\WINDOWS\assembly) and it is a shared repository of libraries.
    Rushikesh shahapurkar
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    Chirag Satasiya
    GAC stands for Global Assembly Cache. The global assembly cache stores assemblies specifically designed to be shared by several applications on the computer. Location of GAC depends upon the version of .NET framework you are using. C:\Windows\Assembly for.NET framework 2.0 or 3.5 i.e. before 4.0 C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\assembly - For .NET framework 4.0 & above
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