Working with GAC from code

Posted by on October 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment 

For some day ago I was working on testing an installer that did add some files to the GAC during installation. To ensure that the installer was working correct I needed some code that could check if some files did exist, add files and remove files from the GAC. I did need this for mainly 3 test cases; files already exist in GAC, files are installed correct and repair scenario when some files are deleted. I did find a good API wrapper on Junfena Zhana’s blog that did wrap the needed COM interactions. Based on this wrapper I did create a small class that did solve my problem.

Install assembly example

public static void InstallAssembly(string assemblyPath)
{
  if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(assemblyPath))
  {
    throw new ArgumentNullException("assemblyPath");
  }
 
  AssemblyCache.InstallAssembly(assemblyPath, null, AssemblyCommitFlags.Force);
}

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