How to use Assembly added in GAC

hi,

before install your assembly in GAC, your assembly must have storng name.

Turn off verification for the assembly if you're storing the assembly in the GAC. By default, the GAC verifies the strong name of each assembly. If the assembly is not signed by using the private key, this verification fails. So, for development and testing purposes, you can relax this verification for an assembly by issuing the following command:
sn.exe -Vr MyFile.dll
When you're ready to deploy a delay-signed assembly, you need to sign it with your private key:

sn.exe -R MyFile.dll MyKeyFile.snk
Finally, you can instruct the GAC to resume verification for an assembly by issuing the following command:

sn.exe -Vu MyFile.dll

In order to share a .NET assembly with multiple applications installed on the same machine, it needs to be installed as Shared Assembly in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC).

gacutil /i MyFile.dll

hope this help.

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Jignesh Trivedi14y ago
hi,

before install your assembly in GAC, your assembly must have storng name.

Turn off verification for the assembly if you're storing the assembly in the GAC. By default, the GAC verifies the strong name of each assembly. If the assembly is not signed by using the private key, this verification fails. So, for development and testing purposes, you can relax this verification for an assembly by issuing the following command:
sn.exe -Vr MyFile.dll
When you're ready to deploy a delay-signed assembly, you need to sign it with your private key:
sn.exe -R MyFile.dll MyKeyFile.snk
Finally, you can instruct the GAC to resume verification for an assembly by issuing the following command:
sn.exe -Vu MyFile.dll
In order to share a .NET assembly with multiple applications installed on the same machine, it needs to be installed as Shared Assembly in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC).
gacutil /i MyFile.dll

hope this help.
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Satyapriya Nayak14y ago
Hi Smart,

Please refer the below links

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/usedllgac.aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/demystifygac.aspx

Thanks
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