Scott Hanselman,
the tools and utilities freek has a new
Hanselminutes audio stream up and mentions a handy Windows tweak for .NET
developers. A common need for .NET developers is to SEE the GAC – which Windows
hides from you. Perhaps you need to see the physical file version living there,
or you’d like to copy some stuff there such as PDB files for debugging. In the
past I’ve used the command prompt to manually navigate to
the C:\Windows\assembly:
Scott’s approach is much nicer using the subst command to map a path to a drive. This is a
simple Windows Shell extension available from Windows natively. Scott recommend
mapping the G drive to C:\Windows\assembly, which then gives you the raw GAC
available to you at G:\. Pretty slick.
This…
SUBST G:
“C:\Windows\assembly”
Gives you this…
