How to register Assembly .net 4.0 in windows 7 GAC?

assemblies gac gacutil
Flavio CF Oliveira picture Flavio CF Oliveira · Aug 3, 2011 · Viewed 9.5k times · Source

Hi i'm using vs2010 to create a .net 4.0 assembly that i pretend to register on the GAC.

i can't find the gacutil and don't know ho to register an assembly on the 4.0 GAC

can someone help?

SOLUTION FOUND: Register using GacUtil located in: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools

Answer

oGJo picture oGJo · Aug 3, 2011

You can either copy your assembly to your: %windir%\assembly folder, or use the Global Assembly Cache Utility found in the Microsoft SDK or Visual Studio SDK.

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