10 Seconds on Windows Assemblies

So ... Windows assemblies are these little packages a .NET application can be made of.

Kind of a way around the 'DLL hell'. Check out C:\WINDOWS\assembly to see what I mean.

Interesting to note is that the same thing looks quite different in the command shell, try:

dir C:\Windows\assembly

Details are described here:

http://geekswithblogs.net/pavelka/archive/2006/05/05/WindowsExplorerAndTheGlobalAssemblyCache.aspx

Here's a tool to list and possibly remove assemblies (can be very handy after a bad install):

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301