enumerating assemblies in GAC

Question

How can I enumerate all available assemblies in GAC in C#?

Actually I am facing an issue with a stupid code - the assembly called Telerik.Web.UI.dll is referred and

Answer 1

a simple method to enumerate dll files in a directory

public static string[] GetGlobalAssemblyCacheFiles(string path)
{
    List files = new List();

    DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(path);

    foreach (FileInfo fi in di.GetFiles("*.dll"))
    {
        files.Add(fi.FullName);
    }

    foreach (DirectoryInfo diChild in di.GetDirectories())
    {
        var files2 = GetGlobalAssemblyCacheFiles(diChild.FullName);
        files.AddRange(files2);
    }

    return files.ToArray();
}

and you can get all files

string gacPath = Environment.GetFolderPath(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.Windows) + "\\assembly";
var files = GetGlobalAssemblyCacheFiles(gacPath);

If you need to load each assembly, You get a exception for different run-time version. For this reason you can load assembly with Assembly.ReflectionOnlyLoadFrom to load Assembly in reflection only. Then, Assembly don't load in your AppDomain and don't throw exception.