Registering / Installing a .NET 4 Assembly to the GAC

Question

I am trying to test out assemblies and GAC in .NET 4.0. I have created two very basic class libraries, once in C++ and one in C#. Both of which are strong named. When I use the gacutil i- , I receive an output of registration successful. When I run gacutil -l , I can see that both my assemblies are installed in the GAC. However, when I try to load these assemblies using Reflection in C# / VBScript, it fails. I tried registering the assemblies with regasm /tbl but this failed with the error "RegAsm : error RA0000 : Unable to locate input assembly ". What am I missing? Do I really need to register .NET 4 assemblies after installing them into the GAC? Any clarifications on this will be great.

Thanks!

Answer 1

This is very bizarre. I used this example: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/usedllgac.aspx.
Compiled it for .NET 4. The gacutil -i works since when I execute gacutil -l I can see my assembly. When I use their example to load the assembly I get an exception that the assembly or one of its dependencies were not found. Anything I am missing? When you use gacutil to install an assembly to the GAC, do you also need to register it with regasm?

Thanks!