Open assemblies from Global Assembly Cache

Click Open from GAC on the toolbar of the Assembly Explorer window

In the dialog that appears, select the desired assemblies. You can batch-select assembly items and filter out assemblies by typing parts of assembly names in the Search field.

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Use CamelHumps — the capital letters that different parts of assembly names start with. For example, to find all assemblies with names containing Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling in the list of GAC assemblies, you can type mvsm.