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Tim Marsden - 27 Oct 2004 22:09 GMT

Hi,

when I navigate to path C:\Windows\assembly in widows explorer , there is a
sub folder listed in the treeview called downloads. This lists some
assemblies I have created. But I don't now how there got there?

Can somebody cast some light on this for me.

One assembly is a office addin which I do use REGASM / codebase to make
work. The others are dependent assemblies, but not all are listed.

Tim

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Kevin Yu [MSFT] - 28 Oct 2004 03:08 GMT

Hi Tim,

First of all, I would like to confirm my understanding of your issue. From
your description, I understand that you need to know what are the
assemblies in the download sub folder in GAC. If there is any
misunderstanding, please feel free to let me know.

As far as I know, the download sub folder contains the assemblies that were
downloaded by IE. When we are using smart client applications, IE need a
cache to put the temporary assemblies for running the app. Downloads sub
folder is that cache.

We can use gacutil.exe to delete the files in that cache. Type gacutil.exe
/? for more information.

HTH.

Kevin Yu

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Tim Marsden - 28 Oct 2004 10:00 GMT

Thanks for the reply

The assemblies do not appear when I do a Gacutil.exe /l
If they are doing no damage then no problem, but I am having trouble with my
app and I am trying to eliminate potential problems.

Tim

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Kevin Yu [MSFT] - 29 Oct 2004 03:59 GMT

Hi Tim,

I don't think the assemblies in the GAC download folder will affect your
program's execution.

Kevin Yu

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