Do you want to create a program to install your assembly in the GAC using C#. Well if you had that requirement or you are just curious, here is how.
What I wanted just a straight answer of how to do it. Well here is how:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.GAC;
//// Artinsoft
//// Author: Mauricio Rojas orellabac@gmail.com mrojas@artinsoft.com
//// This program uses the undocumented GAC API to perform a simple install of an assembly in the GAC
namespace AddAssemblyToGAC
{ class Program
{ static void Main(string[] args)
{ // Create an FUSION_INSTALL_REFERENCE struct and fill it with data
FUSION_INSTALL_REFERENCE[] installReference = new FUSION_INSTALL_REFERENCE[1];
installReference[0].dwFlags = 0;
// Using opaque scheme here
installReference[0].guidScheme = System.GAC.AssemblyCache.FUSION_REFCOUNT_OPAQUE_STRING_GUID;
installReference[0].szIdentifier = "My Pretty Aplication Identifier";
installReference[0].szNonCannonicalData= "My other info";
// Get an IAssemblyCache interface
IAssemblyCache pCache = AssemblyCache.CreateAssemblyCache();
String AssemblyFilePath = args[0];
if (!System.IO.File.Exists(AssemblyFilePath))
{ Console.WriteLine("Hey! Please use a valid path to an assembly, assembly was not found!"); }
int result = pCache.InstallAssembly(0, AssemblyFilePath,installReference);
//NOTE recently someone reported a problem with this code and I tried this:
// int result = pCache.InstallAssembly(0, AssemblyFilePath,null); and it worked. I think is a marshalling issue I will probably review it later
Console.WriteLine("Process returned " + result); Console.WriteLine("Done!");
}
}
}