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Article ID: 818422 - Last Review: May 15, 2003 - Revision: 1.2
PRB: Assemblies Remain in GAC If You Remove .NET Framework Before Visual J# .NET
When you remove Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package
from your computer after you remove Microsoft .NET Framework Software Development Kit (SDK), the
following assemblies remain in
the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) folder:
- Vjscor.dll
- Vjslib.dll
- Vjslibcw.dll
- Vjswfc.dll
- VJSWfcBrowserStubLib.dll
- Vjswfccw.dll
- Vjswfchtml.dll
These assemblies are related to Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package.
The Global Assembly Cache stores assemblies that are designated to be shared by several .NET applications on the computer. After
you remove .NET Framework, the GAC folder is inaccessible, and the
remaining assemblies are orphaned. Therefore, the assemblies that are related to Visual
J# .NET Redistributable Package are not removed from GAC when you remove
Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package.
To work around this problem, remove Visual J# .NET
Redistributable Package before you remove .NET Framework SDK.
This
behavior is by design.
Steps to Reproduce the Behavior
- Install .NET Framework SDK on a clean computer.
- Install Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package.
- Restart the computer.
- Remove .NET Framework SDK from your computer.
- Remove Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package from your
computer.
- In Windows Explorer, locate the Windows
folder\Assembly folder. Notice that the Visual J# .NET assemblies are not removed from
the GAC.
For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
812823Â
(http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=812823/EN-US/
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PRB: Native Image Entries Are Not Removed from GAC When You Remove Visual J# .NET
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1
- Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0
- Microsoft Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package
- Microsoft Visual J# .NET 2003 Standard Edition
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