Thursday, June 6, 2013

There are extreme restrictions on the ability of installers to add to the GAC.

Something another coworker mentioned yesterday is that only Microsoft's installers (.msi type files) are really suited to install things in the GAC. If you use a different installer such as NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) you will find that the next time a .msi is run that it "cleans up" what the NSIS installation routine added to the GAC.

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