VSM - September 2003 Getting Started column
Master No-Touch App Deployment
Stan Schultes - stan@vbnetexpert.com

The text of this article assumes you're using Visual Studio .NET 2003 on a machine with Internet Information Services running (for demonstration of downloaded code permissions). This article requires the .NET Framework 1.1.

Unzip the contents of the sample file using directory names. In the DeploymentSample directory, double-click on the WinFormsUtilityTemplate.sln file to launch the solution in Visual Studio .NET 2003. 

If you want to run the gacutil utility to check your download cache, open a command prompt window and execute the corvars.bat file to set the proper environment variables. Corvars.bat is found in the .NET Framework SDK bin directory (by default: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\FrameworkSDK\Bin). For convenience, I move a copy of this file to my c:\windows directory so I can easily execute it from anywhere. 

Execute > gacutil /? to see a list of the commands available in this tool.

You can see the contents of the download cache with gacutil /ldl. You can clear the download cache using gacutil /cdl - which is handy during testing and debug. The download cache on my WinXP Pro machine is in the c:\windows\assembly\download directory. You must use gacutil to manipulate files in this directory, you can't add or delete files here manually.