Assembly

Janne · October 9th, 2003, 03:09 AM

Hi!

I try to use GACUTIL to uninstall my own components but for some reason there is a reference to Windows Installer that will not let go of my component.

I did not use Windows Installer?

Assembly could not be uninstalled because it is required by Windows Installer
Unable to uninstall: assembly is required by one or more applications
Pending references:
SCHEME: <WINDOWS_INSTALLER> ID: <MSI> DESCRIPTION : <Windows Installer>

How do I solve this problem?

I have tried to use Add/Remove Program but my there is nothing there to uninstall that has anything to do with my component.

schockp · October 9th, 2003, 06:57 AM

I'm not sure, but if your component is running in library mode, and for instance invoked by a webservice, then aspnet_wp is locking your dll. Stop your IIS and see if you can uninstall the component.

Pieter

Janne · October 9th, 2003, 07:31 AM

I tried but it did not help.

Thanks.

schockp · October 9th, 2003, 09:07 AM

Maybe you can try to remove the dll manually from the assembly directory:
rmdir c:\winnt\assembly\GAC\name_of_dll_without_extensio n /s /q

Make sure the process that's locking the dll is stopped if you try this.

Hope this helps.

Pieter

Janne · October 10th, 2003, 01:50 AM

That one worked just fine.

I had at least 10 different versions of the same component and all of them just disappered.

Thank you.