Jaimal Chohan

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The GAC

Posted by: jaimalchohan on: May 15, 2008

The GAC
Way back as part of .NET 1.1, Microsoft introduced a feature called the Global Assembly Cache, or GAC. The GAC is a virtual folder which holds references to assemblies on the hard disk.
You can view assemblies in the GAC by navigating to C:\Windows\Assembly (or whatever your root drive is) and what you should [...]