regasm and GAC accumulation.

[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

1) RegASM puts it in the GAC. But what exactly does that give me?

2) I have a build process which rebuilds a strongly named asm several times a
day. I regasm it each time. Each time it takes longer and longer....

I am not unregistering it - do I have like 150 copies of this in my GAC now?
How can I manually just kill them out?


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[Mattias Sjögren]

1) RegASM puts it in the GAC.

Regasm doesn't put anything in the GAC. Gacutil does.



Mattias

 

[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

Regasm doesn't put anything in the GAC. Gacutil does.

Sorry. GACUtil.

Im calling RegAsm, then GacUtil. Are both necessary? And same question as
before, but with GacUtil.


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[Mattias Sjögren]

And same question as before, but with GacUtil.
OK


1) RegASM puts it in the GAC. But what exactly does that give me?

It makes the assembly globally available to all applications. There
are few reasons to put your own assemblies in the GAC, most of the
time the application directory is a better choice.

2) I have a build process which rebuilds a strongly named asm several times a
day. I regasm it each time. Each time it takes longer and longer....

I haven't seen that happen.

I am not unregistering it

Why not?

- do I have like 150 copies of this in my GAC now?

Don't know, but running Gacutil.exe /l will tell you.

How can I manually just kill them out?

Gacutil.exe /u



Mattias

 

[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

Why not?

Im doing a lot of "internal" builds. Maybe the answer is that I just dont
need it in the GAC for internal builds?

Don't know, but running Gacutil.exe /l will tell you.

Thanks. Will check this out..


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[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

Why not?

Didnt know I had to until recently.

Don't know, but running Gacutil.exe /l will tell you.
Thanks.


Gacutil.exe /u

That fixed it. I had 35 of them.

GACUTIL has a billion options - somone needs to write a decent GUI front end
for that puppy.


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[Mattias Sjögren]

GACUTIL has a billion options - somone needs to write a decent GUI front end
for that puppy.

There is one already; the shell view you get if you open
%WINDIR%\assembly in Explorer.

You may also want to check out

http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/eng/tools/asmcacheaddin.asp



Mattias