Amitabh
Reputation: 61167
How to know which application is using an Assembly in GAC?
How to know which application is using an Assembly in GAC? I want to remove unwanted assemblies from GAC but it is not getting removed as it is used by some other application.
Upvotes: 3
Views: 2940
Answers (2)
AureliusMarcus
Reputation: 27
A passive approach can be using the Visual Studio tool fuslogvw to configure logging for all assemblies that are used on your machine. Then later you can examine the log and draw conclusion of which GAC elements are not used.
Upvotes: 2
Yuriy Faktorovich
Reputation: 68667
You can use Process Explorer to find processes using a file.
Upvotes: 2
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