Running GACUtil in Build for Visual Studio 2005

This content originally appeared on Modern Web Development with Chrome and was authored by Paul Kinlan

<p>It took me absolutly ages to find why I couldn't run GACUtil or the RegAsm.exe from a build script. It is because VS2005 Beta 2 doesn't seem to load the PATH Envionment variables at build time. This results in VS2005 Beta 2 not being able to find the files it needs. There is a simple cure to this problem<p />The Following doesn't work and causes build errors (because the build script doesn't run)<blockquote style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><div style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px;">cd $(ProjectDir)\bin\Release<p />gacutil.exe /if Favorites.dllregasm Favorites.dll</div></blockquote><div style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px;">If you add the following line in: <strong><em>CALL "%VS80COMNTOOLS%\vsvars32.bat" > NULL</em></strong>so that you get:</div><blockquote style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><div style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px;">CALL "%VS80COMNTOOLS%\vsvars32.bat" > NULLcd $(ProjectDir)\bin\Release<p />gacutil.exe /if Favorites.dllregasm Favorites.dll</div></blockquote><div style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px;">It works fine. The extra line in the build script seems to load the environment varibles that VS2005 Beta 2 needs.<p /></p> </div><p />

This content originally appeared on Modern Web Development with Chrome and was authored by Paul Kinlan