by Shawn
12. November 2010 07:19
This article is a repost from here
Working locally with DLLs deployed to the GAC is straight forward enough and can be made easy with post build scripts. However, when you are working with a remote server and the DLL needs to be in the GAC its a bit more tricky...particularly if you cannot get a file share to the machine.
Copying the DLL, remoting into the server, adding the DLL to the GAC and recycling the application pool all takes time...this is a solution to the problem.
The solution is an ASPX page in the layouts folder. This allows you to upload a file (to c:\temp) and optionally register it in the GAC (if it is a DLL). Once it has been added to the GAC you can then recycle the application pool of the current application.
All the c# code is in the ASPX page and so to install you just need to copy the file to the 12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS folder and access the file at http://<your site>/_layouts/GacUtil.aspx ... this also means you can easily modify the code to suit your needs.
You will need to be a Farm administrator to access the page. You also need to be a local administrator to add the file to the GAC and write the file to c:\temp...this should be possible on development machine though :-)
Download gacutil.aspx (zipped)
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