Drag and drop a DLL to the GAC (“assembly”) in windows server 2008 .net 4.0

Question

I\'ve trying to deploy some code to a client machine, where I don\'t want to install MS windows SDK tools. This means don\'t have access to \"gacutil\". I also have not c

Answer 1

You can also just copy the file to GAC using a command prompt. I use the following batch script to copy the DLL and restart IIS.

copy /b/v/y "PathToAssembly\MyAssembly.dll" "C:\Windows\assembly\" 
iisreset /noforce
pause

Saves the need to use or install gacutil