Global Assembly Cache in ASP.NET

The Global Assembly Cache, popularly known as GAC is a machine-wide .NET assemblies cache for CLR (Common Language Runtime) platform. This justifies their approach of having a specially controlled central repository addresses the shared library concept and helps to avoid the drawbacks. In simpler terms, every computer on which the CLR is installed has a machine-wide code cache – and that is known as Global Assembly Cache (GAC). It enables you to share assemblies across numerous applications for ASP.NET developers.

The GAC is automatically installed with the .NET runtime. It is located in ‘Windows/WinNT’ directory and inherits the directory’s access control list that administrators have used to protect the folder. This is a very unique feature for all the ASP.NET developers. The Global Assembly Cache Tool allow you to view and manipulate the contents of the GAC.

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