GAC - What's using my assembly

[DesperateDan]

How can I determine what is consuming a particular assembly that's in
the GAC.

(There's an assembly of ours that's not letting me delete it from the
GAC. It's COM exposed and so could be used be either COM or .NET)

 

[Winista]

Doenload FileMon from sysinternals.com. And then you can see who is holding
reference to your dll.

 

[Hank Yakabuski]

I don't know how to tell who has locked it, but you can delete it from the
GAC if you find and remove the reference to your .dll from the following
regkey: HKLM\Software\microsoft\installer\assemblies\global. Check for the
same under HKCU