What's the 'correct' way of registering/installing an Assembly to the GAC?

Question

There seems to be lots of different ways to register assemblies with the GAC, as in, they \'work\'. However, what\'s the \"proper\" way of doing it?

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Answer 1

With Wix I would do something like this:

When you use the attribute Assembly=".net" for a file in WiX, it will create entries in the MsiAssembly and MsiAssemblyName table for this component and mark it as a GAC component.