In spite of Assembly Deployment being GlobalAssembly Cache solution contains resources scoped for web application

Question

As per below snapshot of my SharePoint solution properties, my Assembly Deployment is GlobalAssembly Cache.
My solutions contains two features
1. Timer Job Feature - Scoped at Web Application Level
2. List Item Event Receiver - Scoped at Site Level
While deploying the solution I am asked to give Web Application Url and as per below snapshot it also contains Web Application Scoped resource. 
What I am not able to figure out is why it shows in 'Contains Web Application Resource' as 'Yes' in spite of my
Assembly Deployment being GlobalAssembly Cache?
Secondly, when i deploy my solution, I find my webapplication level feature missing in UI. However the feature is installed and i find it to be visible when i check through powershell script.

Answer 1

Hi Benjamin,
If you're getting a Null Value error anywhere, that means a variable you're referencing isn't set to anything. If you're getting that try echoing out each variable after it's assigned to see if it's set to anything.
The link you are referring is for SharePoint 2010 and verified on Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2008, but not Windows Server 2012.
The approach in this case includes the following per the blog:
Check to see if a web application with the current specified URL is already in use – exit if it is
Check to see if an application pool with the name already exists. If so use it, otherwise create one
Create a web application based on the parameters specified
Assign the object cache properties to the new web application
Create policies for the object cache users to the web application
To simplified the code, we could use powershell below to check if web application and application pool have been already in use ahead. And skip the last two steps in the first time.
Get-SPWebApplication | fl displayname, applicationpool
Please refer to New-SPWebApplication
which is used to create a new web application within the local farm:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607931(v=office.15).aspx. Only two parameters i.e. ApplicationPool and Name are required, we could try a simple command at first:
Please run Get-SPManagedAccount to check the managed account, then execute the command below:
$ap = New-SPAuthenticationProvider
New-SPWebApplication -Name "Contoso Internet Site" -Port 2014 -ApplicationPool "ContosoAppPool" -ApplicationPoolAccount (Get-SPManagedAccount "Domain\Administrator")
 -AuthenticationProvider $ap -SecureSocketsLayer
Regards,
Rebecca Tu
TechNet Community Support