Removing Assemblies From the GAC

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VoxCode LLC

I have a couple of assemblies in the GAC that are no longer being used.
However, they have a reference count of 1 and gacutil says they are being
referenced by the Windows Installer. I know they are not needed because they
are assemblies I have written for my product. The docs say that you can't
force the removal of a referenced assembly if it being referenced by the WI.
Is there ANY way to remove this assembly or are they stuck there until I
re-format the machine.

Thanks in advance - Joel
 
A

Andrew Gnenny

Hi,

You can remove Installer references from the registry. References stored
here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Installer\Assemblies
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Assemblies

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