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Fusion Global Assembly Cache API

  • Artigo

Fusion Global Assembly Cache API is not documented in MSDN, but it is documented in KB article 317540 https://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;317540.

I have received many questions about how to use fusion APIs.

In the coming weeks I'll write a mini-series about how to use those fusion APIs.

Specifically,
1. How to install an assembly.
2. How to uninstall an assembly.
3. How to enumerate GAC.

Since those are essentially what gacutil does, the mini-series will be called “How to write your own gacutil.“.

In whidbey some change is required. I'll post an update to the series when whidbey beta1 is released.

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    April 05, 2004
    Will there be FCL API for reading the GAC's contents?
  • Anonymous
    April 05, 2004
    What a mess :-(
  • Anonymous
    April 05, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    April 05, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    April 12, 2004
    I can't believe .NET doesn't allow for download progress updates during AppDomain.Load/CreateInstance* from http server. Is there something that i'm missing? We have over 11 megs of assemblies to be downloaded initially and whole app obviously freezes during that process. This seems like a common thing with "no-touch" deployment.
  • Anonymous
    April 12, 2004
    This is something we did considered. But the feedback is majority of people don't want to see UI. In Whidbey we have ClickOnce, and it is the preferred way for web deployment. It will have download UI support.
  • Anonymous
    April 12, 2004
    .NET didn't have to provide UI, just some interface(s) for hooking the transfer progress. ClickOnce is .net 2.0, which is year+ way and another year+ until deployed by customers. What should poor souls of .net 1.1 do in the meantime? :) One way i guess is to by pass automatic download and handle the download manually.
  • Anonymous
    April 12, 2004
    Yes, the interface is kind of there, but it is not implemented due to lack of interest(and other higher priorities).

    .Net 2.0 is supposed to be out next year. Yes, I heard you. Unfortunately we can't change a shipping product in such a major way:(. Hopefully this gives you a good reason to use ClickOnce when it is out.
  • Anonymous
    August 02, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    August 02, 2004
    BTW.. I made a working prototype using this article http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/undocumentedfusion.asp but it doesn't seem to work on 2003 server.
  • Anonymous
    August 02, 2004
    Rob, we are in the process of documenting Fusion GAC APIs, so I cancelled the plan of a sample gacutil.exe. You can always look in Rotor's source code for examples.