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I am currently working on a c# project, where I need to access Outlook. The development is being done on two different machines, one of which has office installed, and one of which doesn't. I previously asked how to compile my project against the outlook com object, and one of the comments suggested that I compiled against the office primary interop assembly, or PIA. In my downloaded Office 2007 PIA , there is an msi file, that is supposed to install a number of PIAs for the different parts of Office. My problem is that this seemingly doesn't happen. On my office-less machine, after typing

One of our partners provided us with an assembly we need to access from our application. Unfortunately, this is not strong-name so we can't install it to the GAC. And we can't place it in the same place as our executable. Is there a solution for this? EDIT: This will be a temporary solution only for testing, when they go RC, we will have a strong-named assembly. You have a few options at that point. The first is to place the assembly in a directory that has the name of the assembly (without the extension) which is a subdirectory of the application directory . The second is to specify the sub

Is there any way to force my asp.net application to load the assembly from local bin directory since there is another older version of the assembly with the same name in the gac? I can't delete the gac version since other applications are using it and I am facing some difficulties when adding the newer version to the gac. I found it To force your application to read from local bin directory you have to remove signing from your assembly and then the application will load the assembly from bin. Thanks Wyatt Barnett and murad. Wyatt Barnett Change the version number, strong name the assembly and

How can I get the (physical) installed path of a DLL that is (may be) registered in GAC? This DLL is a control that may be hosted in things other than a .Net app (including IDEs other than VS...). When I use System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location, it gives path of GAC folder in winnt\system32 - or in Design mode in VS gives the path to the VS IDE. I need to get the path where physical dll is actually installed - or the bin/debug or (release) folder for VS. Reason is that there is an XML file I need to get at in this folder, with config setting that are used both in design

I've been searching for a while trying to understand this better, but am not finding any straight-forward answers on this. I have a component that I need to add to the GAC. I'm running Windows 7 64-bit, and in an effort to troubleshoot an issue (SSIS 2005 isn't recognizing the DLL), I'm trying to make sure I have the DLL (.NET 4.0) registered in the proper GAC. So here are my questions: Where are the physical locations in Windows 7 for both 64bit and 32bit GACs? I know of C:\Windows\assembly, but not sure which one this is, and where the other one is. Which version of gacutil do I use to add

I know how to load an assembly from a filename, and also from the GAC. As My .msi file will put a dll project into the GAC, I'm wondering if it's possible to load it from the GAC unknowing the FullName (I mean just with the assembly name, or even the dll filename), because I have to Load this assembly from another project. Here is a piece of code that allows to do this, and an exemple: string path = GetAssemblyPath("System.DirectoryServices"); Assembly.LoadFrom(path); Note if you need a specific processor architecture, since it supports partial name, you can write this kind of things: // load

How to programmatically check GAC for an assembly? Without even trying to get complicated, you could just shell out to gacutil and capture the output. For example, gacutil /l Microsoft.Practices.Unity gives me: Microsoft (R) .NET Global Assembly Cache Utility. Version 3.5.30729.1 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. The Global Assembly Cache contains the following assemblies: Microsoft.Practices.Unity, Version=1.2.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31 bf3856ad364e35, processorArchitecture=MSIL Number of items = 1 versus gacutil /l Some.Nonexistant.Assembly : Microsoft (R