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Cannot remove an assembly from GAC

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Fahad Ashfaque - 26 Jan 2005 20:47 GMT
Hi,

I tried to remove assembly from Framework 1.1 Configuration, it says 'Error
removing assembly' I then hit the gactil which results the following

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

Assembly: foo, Version=1.0.1.1, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=1234567890123456, Custom=null
Assembly could not be uninstalled because it is required by Windows
Installer
Unable to uninstall: assembly is required by one or more applications
Pending references:

    SCHEME: <WINDOWS_INSTALLER>  ID: <MSI>  DESCRIPTION : <Windows
Installer>

Number of items uninstalled = 0
Number of failures = 0
---------------------------------------------------------

I also looked the following registry keys, but there is no such entry.


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Installer\Assemblies
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Assemblies

Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Fahad
Mattias Sj?gren - 26 Jan 2005 21:06 GMT
>I also looked the following registry keys, but there is no such entry.
>
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Installer\Assemblies
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Assemblies

Did you look under the \Global subkey? See

http://blogs.msdn.com/alanshi/archive/2003/12/10/42690.aspx

Mattias

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Fahad Ashfaque - 27 Jan 2005 08:01 GMT
Thanks Muttias,

The article was helpful,

I simply uninstalled the Messenger 6.1, now i can easily remove any assembly.

Thanks for help

Fahad

"Mattias Sjögren" wrote:

> >I also looked the following registry keys, but there is no such entry.
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