where are the Gacutil and the Regasm tools? and how to use them
hi,
i was trying to learn how to build an IE toolbar, i found this articlehttp://www.codeproject.com/csharp/dotnetbandobjects.asp
i had build the assembly ,drag and drop it into the GAC but nothing happend,
then i used the gacutil /if , again nothing have been added to the IE toolbars
this article talk about a tool called regasm"register assembly" , i have C# express but i didn't find this tool in the SDK folder, so where can i find it? or is there any alternative to it,
thanks in advance
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Egyptian] at [2007-12-23]
It is located with the .NET dlls. It appears that there is one for each version of the framework. On my computer, it is under C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727
Another way to access regasm is with the Visual Studio Command Prompt (in Start -> Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 -> Visual Studio .NET Tools).
Hope it helps!
hi,
thank you , i have found it in the path that you sent, "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727"
if any one was interested in this question "How to register an Assembly in the GAC "Global Assembly cach" you can do that in 3 steps
- build your assembly but be sure it has a strong name, How to build assembly with a strong name ? you can right click your project > select properties > signing tab > check sign assembly > open chose a strong name file combobox > select new > give it a name and if you want to add a password you can add it
- move your assembly to the folder "C:\window\assembly" by drag and drop the dll which you build, or
you can use the GacUtil which exists in this path "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin", you can use this utility but starting a command prompt , navigate to the folder where your dll lies, put the utility path between "", put the command prefexed by / ,then the assemblyName that you want to copy to GAC , so it will looks like something like this
c:\Documents and settings\<My userName>\My Docuemtns\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\<MyBroject>\bin\Release > "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin", /if MyClassLib.Dll
- register the assembly by using Regasm utility which lies in this folder "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727" also you will use the command prompt for that i assume you still in the same path you used in the previous step so it will looks like this
c:\Documents and settings\<My userName>\My Docuemtns\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\<MyBroject>\bin\Release > "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\regasm" MyClassLib.Dll
you can substitute step 2 and 3 by using the IDE instead of the command prompt
in solution explorer right-clicking the project file, selecting 'Properties', selecting the 'Build events' tab, and in the 'post build' textbox add this code
cd $(ProjectDir)bin\release
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\gacutil" /if MyClassLib.dll
"C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\regasm" MyClassLib.dll
hope this might help anyone
To avoid hard coding paths in the project pre/post build events, I do something like this:
call "$(DevEnvDir)..\..\vc\vcvarsall.bat" x86
regasm /codebase $(TargetDir)MYASM.dll
regedit /s $(ProjectDir)SOMETHING.reg
You can also see what env vars are available (e.g. %var%), just add SET as the first line and check your output window.
Hope this helps someone
