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The Global Assembly Cache is a system folder (typically C:\Windows\assembly) that contains .NET shared assemblies. Companies that wish to share assemblies with others or even just among their own applications typically store these shared assemblies in the GAC. All of the .NET framework libraries are stored in the GAC.
