how to Un Register the DLL from GAC -- Error

All,

I tried to unistall the Assembly from GAC .. I got the following Error.

C:\WORKSPACE\200928\ALGO\Workspace\FileUpdater\bin\Debug>cd\

C:\>cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\Bin\

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\Bin>gacutil /U Test

Microsoft (R) .NET Global Assembly Cache Utility. Version 1.1.4322.573
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1998-2002. All rights reserved.

No assemblies found that match: SenDll

Number of items uninstalled = 0
Number of failures = 0

Note : I used the following cmd to register :

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\Bin>gacutil /i c:\Test.dll

I see the file in GAC as Test

Please advise me...

Thanks in Advance...
senthil

Hi Senthil,

I have run the register and uninstall command of gacutil that you¡¯ve described, but I didn't encounter such problems on my machine.

I find one discrepancy in your description. You typed ¡°gacutil /U Test¡±, it¡¯s impossible for gacutil to output: ¡± No assemblies found that match: SenDll¡±, the output should be ¡± No assemblies found that match: Test¡±.

Please recheck it.

Can you uninstall your assembly via windows explorer

Open "C:\windows\Assembly" in windows Explorer, select your Test assembly entry, choose "Uninstall" from the context menu. Any luck that way

What output do you see when running the following command:

gacutil /l Test

It should list the assembly you installed in the GAC, but its likely not to list anything if your uninstall command doesn't work.

Via a command prompt you could dig around in the GAC directory structure. Depending on how you compiled your assembly it would be in one or more of the following directories:

C:\Windows\Assembly\GAC_MSIL\Test\<Version>_<PublicKey>\

C:\Windows\Assembly\GAC\Test\<Version>_<PublicKey>\

C:\Windows\Assembly\GAC_32\Test\<Version>_<PublicKey>\

What do you get from typing the following command:

"c:\windows\assembly>dir /s Test.dll"