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How do I register an DLL in GAC Posted Date: 24 Jun 2005      Posted By:: Vipul Mehta     Member Level: Silver    Member Rank: 2161     Points: 2   Responses: 2
Hi Friends, I have created an DLL & how do I register that DLL into GAC so that all my applns in my machine. Regards, Vipul Mehta Tweet
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#23880    Author: Abhay      Member Level: Gold      Member Rank: 0     Date: 24/Jun/2005   Rating:     Points: 2 Hello, Review This Steps http://www.dotnetspider.com/technology/kb/ShowSample.aspx?SampleId=1026 Cheers !!! Abhay Lakkad   #23918    Author: reshma      Member Level: Silver      Member Rank: 0     Date: 25/Jun/2005   Rating:     Points: 2 Hi, The link that Abhay has given is good. But I would like to add something to that: To place a dll into the GAC the following steps need to be done: 1. Generating a public key or a strong name 2. Adding the public key to the AssemblyInfo.vb file of the DLL. This step is called Signing the Assembly with a public key. 3. Build the assembly 4. Placing the dll into GAC . 1. Generating the public key: As Abhay said, go to visualStudio.Net command prompt and type the following command: sn -k keyfile1.snk Here keyfile1.snk is the keyfile we are generating. You can store this key file in the bin folder of the assembly. In order to do this u have to go to the bin folder. For example: C:\foldername\assemblyname\bin sn-k keyfile1.snk By doing this the keyfile is stored in the bin folder. 2. Placing the keyfile into the Assembly. Go to AssemblyInfo.vb file: <Assembly: AssemblyKeyFile("C:\foldername\assemblyname\\keyfile1.snk")> 3. Build the Assembly. 4. Placing the assembly into GAC There are two way in which u can place the assembly into GAC. 1. Using the utility gacutil -i Here you should give the complete path of the dll c:\>gactutil -i c:\foldername\assemblyname\bin\assemblyname.dll 2. The second method is u can drag the .dll file from the bin folder of the assembly and drop it into the folder C:\winnt\Assembly Doing this is same ie placing assembly into GAC. Good Luck. Reshma
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