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A Role of Global Assembly Cache in the .NET framework

A Role of Global Assembly Cache in the .NET framework

Pushpendra Singh 8606 07 Dec 2010 Updated 20 Feb 2020
As we know that A global assembly cache (GAC) is a machine-wide code cache that stores assemblies specifically designated to be shared by several applications on the computer.
A Global Assembly Cache in the .NET framework provides a central place for registering assemblies. Those assemblies once registered are then available to all applications for usage.
Where a GAC(Global assembly cache) is nothing but a special disk folder where all the shared assemblies will be kept.
This is located under <drive>: WinNTAssembly folder.

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