Assembly 'assemblyname' could not be uninstalled because it is required by other applications.

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Ice - 08 Sep 2003 21:35 GMT

All -

I just had to go through the painful process of manually deleting
directories via the command prompt.

Has anyone figured out what causes this problem and how it can be resolved?

Thanks.
ice

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Tim Kurtzman - 18 Sep 2003 22:39 GMT

Assemblies get flagged as being 'special' when an installer program places
them in the GAC. The only way to remove them is to uninstall the program
that originally installed it into the GAC, or else manually delete them
like you have been doing.

Tim

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| From: "Ice" <ice@nospam.com>
| Subject: Assembly 'assemblyname' could not be uninstalled because it is

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Ice - 19 Sep 2003 14:23 GMT

I didn't install the assemblies (or at least i don't think so) with MSI, I
just copied them into the GAC.

ice

> Assemblies get flagged as being 'special' when an installer program places
> them in the GAC. The only way to remove them is to uninstall the program
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Tim Kurtzman - 23 Sep 2003 23:06 GMT

How do you mean, you copied them? Did you use gacutil to put the assemblies
into the gac, or did you just "copy mydll.dll c:\windows\assembly\......"

If you are installing things into the GAC, you should always use gacutil
and not manually copying your files into the GAC..

Tim

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Ice - 26 Sep 2003 06:56 GMT

drag/drop some of them into the GAC - I thought that was an ok operation. I
did also use gacutil to install a couple and I'm pretty sure I still had the
problem.

I will keep my eyes open, and see if this happens again.

ice

> How do you mean, you copied them? Did you use gacutil to put the assemblies
> into the gac, or did you just "copy mydll.dll c:\windows\assembly\......"
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Tim Kurtzman - 30 Sep 2003 01:50 GMT

Yeah, the drag and drop is supported, along with gacutil. Yes, please let
us know if you see this happen again.

Thanks

Tim

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Tim Kurtzman - 30 Sep 2003 02:30 GMT

I just talked with the developer that works on this stuff. Apparently, this
is a known bug.

All assemblies belong to MSI, even though I installed assembly using gacutil

1) the (Default) name in the registry contains an MSI descriptor
value. This is an MSI bug, but they are not exactly sure how the system
gets into this state. Too hard to understand once system is in this state

Backup your HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Installer\Assemblies\Global. Go and
delete the (Default) key under
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Installer\Assemblies\Global

OR

Backup your HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Assemblies\Global. Go and
delete the (Default) key under
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Assemblies\Global

I hope this helps

Tim

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Ice - 02 Oct 2003 16:59 GMT

thanks for info, like i said before, u can just navigate to the directory
and wack the assemblies also :)

ice

> I just talked with the developer that works on this stuff. Apparently, this
> is a known bug.
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