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Question

I need to allow users to select an assembly in much the same way Visual Studio does. Either from the GAC, or from another location in the file system.

A simple OpenFileDialog will not be sufficient, because switching to c: \ windows \ assembly does not allow access to the actual locations of the assembly files in the GAC.

I am not writing a Visual Studio plugin, so I cannot use DTE.

How should I do it?

Answer 1

You need to use the unmanaged CreateAssemblyEnum API, which returns the IAssemblyEnum interface.