How to Remove .NET assemblies from GAC (Global Assembly Cache)

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As most of us know GAC (Global Assembly Cache) is the location where Windows saves all the .NET binaries or .NET assemblies. The physical location of GAC is %windir%\assembly (generally C:\Windows\assembly).Software installers can easily install and register these binaries to GAC using Windows Installer/MSI technology and on uninstalltion should remove them properly. But in some rare cases the installers won’t remove the binaries from GAC which can cause problems with other applications or newer versions of the same application.  more...