regasm and GAC accumulation.

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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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And same question as before, but with GacUtil.
OK


1) RegASM puts it in the GAC. But what exactly does that give me?
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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....
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I haven't seen that happen.

I am not unregistering it
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Why not?

- do I have like 150 copies of this in my GAC now?
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Don't know, but running Gacutil.exe /l will tell you.

How can I manually just kill them out?
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Gacutil.exe /u



Mattias
 
Mattias Sjögren said:
Why not?
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Didnt know I had to until recently. :)
Don't know, but running Gacutil.exe /l will tell you.
Thanks.


Gacutil.exe /u
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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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