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I was studying GAC recently, and I found the GAC assemblies can found in windows registry, see How can i get the location of the GAC using C#?. by C# code, I can get a byte[8] array from any registry item under 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Fusion\GACChangeNotification\Default

For example:

name : System,2.0.0.0,,b77a5c561934e089,MSIL
value in c# code : byte[72,212,154,147,251,33,206,1]

And I search in Google, can not find any document for this value, does anybody who knows how to utilize this value?

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  • GACUTIL.EXE apparently uses it. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1460793/methods-to-programmatically-install-a-net-assembly-into-the-gac. I'm wondering why you need to know. Just curiosity? Perhaps if you told us the problem you're trying to solve. – Robert Harvey Mar 29 '13 at 01:37
  • Thanks Robert. Yes, just curiosity. In fact, seems we can combine the full assembly string information, which can be used by Assembly.Load, from the key. – tony Mar 29 '13 at 03:19

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