While doing some SharePoint stuff, I needed to make SharePoint find one of my DLLs I have used in my SharePoint web part. I was going to install the dll in my Global Assembly Cache of my Vista pc. I went to the %WINDOWS%\assembly folder and simply dragged the dll there, but it gave me an error saying "Access Denied". Then I did what I always do when I get this sort of authentication errors, I closed the explorer, then re-opened it as Administrator. Still no use. I tried to find the gacutil.exe but I couldn't find that either in my .NET Framework folders.
I had to do a bit of googling and found this way in one of the forums. You need to use the "Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Configuration" utility which lets you Install / Uninstall assemblies from the GAC easily. You can find this utility in the following location
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\mscorcfg.msc"
When you open the utility, there is a node called My Computer in the left hand pane. Expand it and click on the sub node "Assembly Cache". This will give you two options in the right hand pane, "View List of Assemblies...." and "Add an Assembly to ...". You can use the second option to add the assembly to GAC.
Hope this helps,
Cheers!
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