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C# Cookbook, 2nd Edition
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C# Cookbook, 2nd Edition

by Jay Hilyard, Stephen Teilhet
January 2006
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1184 pages
43h 23m
English
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Determining the Versions of an Assembly That Are Registered in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC)
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20.6 Determining the Versions of an Assembly That
Are Registered in the Global Assembly Cache
(GAC)
Problem
You need to determine all of the versions of an assembly that are currently installed
in the GAC.
Solution
Use the PrintGACRegisteredVersions method (implemented here) to display all of the
versions (both native and managed) of an assembly in the GAC. In order to be com-
plete, the code looks for .dll, .exe, and the native versions of .dll and .exe files in the
Global Assembly Cache.
public static void PrintGACRegisteredVersions(string assmFileName)
{
Console.WriteLine("Searching for GAC Entries for {0}\r\n", assmFileName);
// Get the filename without the extension as that is the subdirectory
// name in the GAC where it would be registered.
string assmFileNameNoExt = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(assmFileName);
// Need to look for both the native images as well as "regular" .dlls and .exes.
string searchDLL = assmFileNameNoExt + ".dll";
string searchEXE = assmFileNameNoExt + ".exe";
string searchNIDLL = assmFileNameNoExt + ".ni.dll";
string searchNIEXE = assmFileNameNoExt + ".ni.exe";
The Directory.GetFiles method is used to determine if any of those versions are
present in the ...
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