When I navigate to C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\myfirstproject\202aebd2\f0e764e2\assembly\dl3 in Windows explorer, there are 108 folders with 8 character hexadecimal names. Explorer won’t sort this folder by name (or value ). What gives?

It is sorting them by name. Unfortunately, it’s using a natural sort which includes numbers. This means that
99b6...sorts before182c..., because99 < 182.