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Always wondering how the internal structure of the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) looks like? Just add a registry sub key "DisableCacheViewer" of type DWORD with value 1 to the path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\Microsoft\Fusion.

Read more on this in the MSPress book about CLR via C# Second Edition.

I recommend only to disable the shell extension when you want to take a look to the real structure of the GAC. Re-enable the shell extension if you want to actively use the GAC. The shell extension makes interacting with the GAC a lot easier than doing it yourself.

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