What’s the ‘correct’ way of registering/installing an Assembly to the GAC?

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With Wix I would do something like this:


<DirectoryRef Id="MyDirectory" >
    <Component Id="MyComponent" Guid="PUT-GUID-HERE" DiskId="1">
        <File Id="MyAssembly" Name="MyAssembly.dll" Assembly=".net" KeyPath="yes" Source="MyAssembly.dll" />
    </Component>
</DirectoryRef>

When you use the attribute Assembly=”.net” for a file in WiX, it will create entries in the MsiAssembly and MsiAssemblyName table for this component and mark it as a GAC component.

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