General MS guidelines no no no GAC is really a repository for Microsoft common .NET libraries. Yes, they let developers use it too, but as a rule of thumb, if you don’t need GAC, don’t use it. keep things simple and local if it doesn’t hurt. I would consider GAC only for performance reasons, for … Read more
Loading assemblies from GAC mean less overhead and security that your application will always load correct version of .NET library You shouldn’t ngen assemblies that are outside of GAC, because there will be almost no performance gain, in many cases even loss in performance. You’re already using GAC, because all standard .NET assemblies are actually … Read more
As the others said, most of the time you won’t want to do that because it doesn’t copy the assembly to your project and it won’t deploy with your project. However, if you’re like me, and trying to add a reference that all target machines have in their GAC but it’s not a .NET Framework … Read more
Try going to the Publish tab in the project properties and then select the Application Files button. Then set the following properties: File Name of stdole.dll Publish status to Include Download Group to Required After that you need to republish your application. If the reference has CopyLocal=true, then the reference will be published with the … Read more
You can use gacutil provided with Visual Studio for that. Simply open the Developer Command Prompt (available in Start Menu>App>Visual Studio) and run the following command: gacutil -l >yourassemblies.txt Gacutil is also available as a separate download if you don’t have/want Visual Studio.
That’s because you use the .NET 4.0 version of gacutil.exe. It stores the assembly in a different GAC, the one in c:\windows\microsoft.net\assembly. Where all .NET 4.0 assemblies are stored. There is no shell extension handler for that one, the folders are visible as-is. You can have a look-see with Windows Explorer, .you’ll see the internal … Read more
If it has the same version number as the referenced DLL, the GAC gets used. If you increment the version number, rebuild the website referencing the new version number, put the new version in the /bin directory, then that DLL will be used. If you do not want to change the version number, you’re pretty … Read more
You can do that using the gacutil tool. In its simplest form: gacutil /i yourdll.dll You find the Visual Studio Command Prompt in the start menu under Programs -> Visual Studio -> Visual Studio Tools.
I was having the same problem. Turned out I was missing the ./Views/Web.config file, because I created the project from an empty ASP.NET application instead of using an ASP.NET MVC template. For ASP.NET MVC 5, a vanilla ./Views/Web.config file contains the following: <?xml version=”1.0″?> <!– https://stackoverflow.com/a/19899269/178082 –> <configuration> <configSections> <sectionGroup name=”system.web.webPages.razor” type=”System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.RazorWebSectionGroup, System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, … Read more
Install: gacutil -i “path_to_the_assembly” View: Open in Windows Explorer folder .NET 1.0 – NET 3.5: c:\windows\assembly (%systemroot%\assembly) .NET 4.x: %windir%\Microsoft.NET\assembly OR gacutil –l When you are going to install an assembly you have to specify where gacutil can find it, so you have to provide a full path as well. But when an assembly already … Read more