How to check GAC assembly details on Windows Server 2012?

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Solution 1

You are probably looking for the custom look of the GAC directory that you were familiar with in .NET versions prior to 4.0. Which stored the GAC in the c:\windows\assembly window and used a custom shell extension to flatten the directory structure into a list of assemblies.

The shell extension is no longer used for .NET versions 4.0 and up. You have .NET 4.5 on that machine, its GAC is stored in c:\windows\microsoft.net\assembly. You just get to see the actual directory structure. Locating the assembly isn't that difficult, start in the GAC_MSIL directory and you should have no trouble locating your assembly there by its name. Locate the folder with the same display name as your assembly. It will have a subdirectory that has an unspeakable name that's based on the version and public key token, that subdirectory contains the DLL.

If your assembly is a mixed-mode assembly created with C++/CLI then you'd start from either the GAC_32 or GAC_64 directory.

Solution 2

just try with this path

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly

Solution 3

An option would be to use PowerShell. I've created a PowerShell module which allows you to see and manipulate the GAC contents. You can find it here.

# Show the assemblies in the GAC, including the file version
Get-GacAssembly SomeCompany* | Format-Table -View FileVersion

Solution 4

The gacutil.exe has a parameter to do this. If you run

gacutil.exe /l

You will get a list of registrations.

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Binu Bhasuran

Updated on July 09, 2022

Comments

Binu Bhasuran almost 2 years

How can you check GAC assembly details Windows Server 2012? I managed to register a DLL via Powershell, now I need to verify that it is really done.
- Alberto almost 11 years
  
  Have you tried gacutil?
- Paolo Tedesco almost 11 years
  
  @Alberto: gacutil is a development tool, it's probably not installed on the server.
- Alberto almost 11 years
  
  I see... so maybe you can try with this stackoverflow.com/questions/882854/…
Binu Bhasuran almost 11 years

it displays only folders, special folder assembly's shell extension seems not available in windows server 2012.
Christian.K almost 11 years

@BinuBhasuran I think the shell extension was dropped with .NET 4.0 (Windows Server 2012 comes with .NET 4.5).
Binu Bhasuran almost 11 years

thanks, this seems to be the case. I found the details looking for.