GAC Browser and Remover

The majority of application contain or rely or large assemblies containing necessary code. As such, developers might need to be well aware of where and what assemblies they’re up against. In this regard, GAC Browser and Remover comes as a tool to look up and manage assemblies on your computer.

Taking little time to install, the application allows you to take it for a spin shortly after. Note, however, that it does require .NET Framework on your computer to function, but it usually comes as a default feature in modern Windows iterations.

As far as the interface is concerned, the application relies on classic window elements to represent its features and functions. Most of the space is where you view detected items in a table with column headers for assembly name, public key, culture, architecture, version, last modified, as well as CLF.

By default, the application can spot all present assemblies on your computer by simply initiating the search operation. However, you can narrow down results through input of assembly name as search parameter, as well as public key, and whether or not they meet CLR 2 or CLR 4.

It doesn’t take a lot of time to have results displayed in the list. Column headers can be used as filters, but you cannot search for particular elements once results are shown unless you start a new session with search strings filled in.

You can choose to have all assemblies selected by default in case you simply want to remove everything. On the other hand, you can take the time and manually tick elements of interest after search is done.

Bottom line is that assemblies are important part of application development, so you might need to know where some are or even remove them. This is where GAC Browser and Remover comes in handy, with a straightforward set of tools which get the job properly done and fast.