This is purely terminology we used internally. Assembly Binding is the process of probing. A.k.a, given an assembly name, finding out where the assembly is. Assembly binding is performed by fusion. This also includes applying policy. Managed code is not...

When CLR loader cannot find an assembly via the standard probing, CLR loader will give you a chance to provide the assembly, by firing AssemblyResolve event. You can subscribe to this event, and provide the assembly when necessary. Now what if your event...

I added the functionality to enumerate install references of GAC assemblies to the managed GAC API wrappers. Meanwhile I added some comments in UninstallAssembly to explain the behavior David Levine saw. It is really about what is fully specified name...

Majority of the time, you can use fuslogvw.exe to find out why an assembly load failed. There are times when fusion binding log tells you that the assembly is found successfully, but you still get an FileLoadException. One of the common case is that one...

Gacutil shows the content of ngen cache in v1.0 and v1.1. In v2.0, this feature is removed from gacutil. The reason is several folds: 1. We want people to use the right tool for the right job. Ngen.exe is the right tool to managed ngen cache. Gacutil...

I can think of three reasons that you need to use GAC APIs, instead of the existing tools. 1. Customized installer: You need to install assemblies to GAC, and you cannot install MSI. Example: The assemblies are created when your application runs. So those...

In case you don't know, the contral center from ATI's latest driver offer requires .Net framework 1.1. http://ati.com/support/drivers/winxp/radeonwdm-xp.html?type=xp&prodType=graphic&prod=productsXPdriver&submit.x=12&submit.y=6&submit...

In case you did not notice, there is an "Article" link in the blog's main page I added three articles there. Fusion GAC API Samples Sample Managed GAC API Wrappers Test Application for Managed GAC API Wrappers As usually, those are provided "AS IS" with...

//------------------------------------------------------------- // GACTest.cs // // This is a test application for Managed GAC API Wrappers //------------------------------------------------------------- using System; using System.GACManagedAccess; public...

//------------------------------------------------------------- // GACWrap.cs // // This implements managed wrappers to GAC API Interfaces //------------------------------------------------------------- using System; using System.Runtime.InteropServices;...

For displaying purpose, error handling is skipped in all the sample code. Please don’t skip error handling in production code. 1.1. Get GAC API Interfaces Before use GAC API interfaces, you have to get GAC API interfaces. GAC API interfaces are pseudo...

Every assembly has so-called "Display name". As of today, the display name of an assembly is shown as "name, Version=xx.xx.xx.xx, Culture=xx, PublicKeyToken=xx". It starts with a "name", then a bunch of "key=value" pairs, separated by comma. Thos keys...

When I was searching for some MSDN links for Whidbey stuff in http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/library last night, I was redirected to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/default.aspx . I am really impressed by the new site. Now you can use "http://msdn2...

When you install an assembly to GAC, you have the option to specify an Assembly Trace Reference . And we strongly recommend that you specify a trace reference, for the reason I will discuss below. The idea behind trace reference is really simple. When...

Mscorlib.dll is in GAC now in .Net framework 2.0, contrast to v1.0/v1.1, where mscorlib is in framework's directory. If you rely on mscorlib.dll's path to get framework's directory, you have to change your code to use System.Runtime.IneropServices.RuntimeEnvironment...

As I mentioned in a previous post, assemblies in .Net framework 2.0 now have ProcessorArchitecture now. 64 bit .Net framework 2.0 redist will install both 64 bit runtime and 32 bit runtime. But there is only one GAC. And both 64 bit runtime and 32 bit...