GAC deployment placing the SharePoint DLLs in different path

Question

_{Wednesday, April 1, 2015 9:47 AM}

Hi,

Am deploying a wsp in SharePoint 2013 with the help of update-spsolution command with GAC deployment option. when I navigate to c:\windows\Assembly folder am unable to see the dlls related to the WSP I deployed. When I search for it I found the dll in “C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL\WSP name}\v4.0_1.0.0.0__3b27dd6af4a6abff”. There is no reference for the dll in GAC(c:\windows\Assembly folder).

As per my knowledge it should go to GAC folder. Is there any design change with GAC deployment ? why it is getting copied in different path ?

Thanks,

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_{Wednesday, April 1, 2015 10:22 PM ✅Answered}

Yes, that is the new correct place for .NET 4.0 and higher assemblies to go to. You'll also see a bunch of SharePoint assemblies there.

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_{Thursday, April 2, 2015 1:40 AM ✅Answered}

Nikhil,

From .NET 1.0 through .NET 3.5 the DLL's will be deployed to the C:\Windows\Assembly folder. From v4.0 Framework the dedployment location changed to it's hub which means C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\ That is the correct location and these dll's are globally available. So, it is same as GAC deployment. 

You can read full information on this here. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yf1d93sz%28v=vs.110%29.aspx

_{Friday, April 3, 2015 7:09 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

NIkhil,In share point 2013 the correct place to store the dll is C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly only.please check the link below that explains the same.

http://expertsharepoint.blogspot.de/2014/07/location-of-gacglobal-assembly-cachein.html

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