07 April 2010

GACUTIL.EXE hates 3.0/3.5 Framework assemblies

You might be aware of a nifty tool from Microsoft to install/uninstall/query installed assemblies in a special folder “\\windows\assemblies” called gacutil. I use this tool a lot to determine what assemblies are installed on target machine. Today I installed 3.5 framework on our test server and try running this tool to determine the assemblies. To my surprise it works perfectly with assemblies until 2.0 framework, but does not show details for 3.0 and 3.5 framework. I can browse using my explorer and see these assemblies in the folder but using gacutil it does not show up:

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This is the result of gacutil:

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