GACUTIL – Visual Studio 2008

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Chris

Often it’s useful to have assembly files added to the Global Assembly Cache using a command-line (DOS-style) batch program – eg. install.bat

For Visual Studio 2005, this file (GACUTIL.EXE) is located here…>

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\

So, for Visual Studio 2008, I had assumed it would be in the same location – or even in the new v3.5 folder…>

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\SDK\v3.5\Bin\

BUT – it’s not in either of those locations, and (after some hunting and Google’ing – and not sure why), but I found it here…>

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin

NB.  This is for a Windows Server 2008 implementation – a quick check onto a Windows Vista (x64) machine verifies has the same file location.

So – there ya go – if you’re wondering “where is gacutil ?” – you know where to look !

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Filed under: .NET, Visual Studio 2008

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8 Responses

  1. Resiina, on September 16th, 2008 at 5:03 pm Said:

    Thank you, this was most helpfull.

    Reply
  2. Mwanalezi, on October 2nd, 2008 at 6:19 am Said:

    Thank you,
    this post was so helpfull for me

    Reply
  3. Gookamookie, on October 4th, 2008 at 10:37 am Said:

    Thanks – this helped a ton!

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  4. Benjamin, on December 16th, 2008 at 11:30 pm Said:

    Das habe ich gesucht!

    Reply
  5. Jon, on January 8th, 2009 at 1:27 am Said:

    Thank-you!!!
    And to Microsoft for wasting so much of our time…
    NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!

    Reply
  6. Fredrik, on March 22nd, 2009 at 11:43 pm Said:

    Thank you!

    Reply
  7. Conrad, on June 14th, 2009 at 1:47 am Said:

    But what if Visual Studio is not installed on the server – like a real world situation where the server has NOT got Visual Studio on it, but your local developement PC does?

    Reply
  8. Andrew, on June 18th, 2009 at 6:16 pm Said:

    Thanks a lot! Your efforts really has helped a lot of people :)

    Reply

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