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Asked: 2026-05-10T18:36:38+00:00

All, I’m working on a SharePoint project, but this isn’t a SharePoint-specific question per-se.

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All,

I’m working on a SharePoint project, but this isn’t a SharePoint-specific question per-se. I have an assembly I’ve deployed to a SharePoint farm, and I’d like to verify whether my ‘newest version’ is sitting in the GAC, or if an older version from late yesterday is sitting there instead. This is a test farm, so yes, we are revving versions constantly.

Without doing anything crazy like changing the assembly version itself every time I compile*, is there some assembly property I can check (or set at compile-time)?

*I should clarify, in SharePoint projects we hardcode the assembly’s full name in multiple places (including XML files), so changing the assembly version is a less savory option than you might think.

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  1. Assembly Version is the intended mechanism for this, but you could roll your own by comparing an MD5 hash of the GAC assembly with the MD5 of your latest version.

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