I’ve got an application where some assemblies are copied to C:\Windows\assembly upon deployment under the assumption that this installs them in the GAC. The application seems to work but when I run gacutil.exe on the copied assemblies, it says the Global Assembly Cache contains 0 assemblies.
Should all assemblies in c:\Windows\assembly show up in gacutil? If not, why not? How can I verify that the assembly is in fact installed in the GAC?
I have always used gacutil.exe in the past to register assemblies so doing a file copy is new to me and I’m trying to understand the ramifications.
Surprisingly yes, but this would be an abuse of the internals of how the GAC works so don’t do that.