Not able to place dll in GAC

[Kiran]

Hi,
I am not able to place C# dll into GAC.
I dont want to use gacutil because it is not part of runtime.Can any one
suggest how to install dll in GAC without using gacutil.

Thanks in Advance
Kiran

 

[Mattias Sjögren]

Kiran,

I am not able to place C# dll into GAC.
I dont want to use gacutil because it is not part of runtime.Can any one
suggest how to install dll in GAC without using gacutil.

You can write your own tool that uses the fusion APIs.

http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/eng/samples/dotnet_gactool.asp
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=317540



Mattias

 

[Sanjay Tibrewal]

Assuming you have assingned a strong name to the assembly, you can simply
drag and drop the assembly in the GAC which by default is C:\winnt\assembly.

 

[Kiran]

Hi Sanjay,
Thanq for timely response.
but i cant use drag and drop because i want to place my dll into GAC
while installing.
can you have any idea how to do this ?

Thanks in advance,
Kiran