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The Application tab of the Properties editor provides a button named Assembly Information. When clicked,

you will see a dialog box that allows you to establish numerous assembly-level attributes including the version

number, copyright information, and so forth.

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Installing/Removing Shared Assemblies to/from the GAC

The final step is to install the (now strongly named) CarLibrary.dll into the GAC. The simplest way

to install a shared assembly into the GAC is to drag and drop the assembly to C:\Windows\Assembly

using Windows Explorer (which is ideal for a quick test). Do be aware that copying/pasting the

assembly into the GAC window will 

not work. You must literally drag and drop the *.dll from one

window into the GAC window.

While dragging and dropping an assembly is just fine for local testing, the .NET Framework 3.5

SDK provides a command-line utility named gacutil.exe that allows you to administer the con-

tents of the GAC. Table 15-1 documents some relevant options of gacutil.exe (specify the /? flag to

see each option).

Table 15-1.

Various Options of gacutil.exe