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Adding a DLL to the GAC in .NET 4.0

ByPaul January 27, 2011

GACUTIL.EXE is no longer supplied/installed along with Visual Studio, instead, it has been moved into the Windows SDK v7.1. So to install a DLL into the GAC for .NET 4.0 (or anything after v1.1 I believe) you must first download and install the SDK. Once you have done this you must locate the relevant version of GACUTIL from the four possible locations:

Program FilesMicrosoft SDKsWindowsv7.1Bin
Program FilesMicrosoft SDKsWindowsv7.1Binx64
Program FilesMicrosoft SDKsWindowsv7.1BinNETFX 4.0 Tools
Program FilesMicrosoft SDKsWindowsv7.1BinNETFX 4.0 Toolsx64

The first two are for registering DLLs to be used in .NET 3.5 or earlier, with the first being for x86 and the second for x64 versions.

The second two are for registering DLLs to be used in .NET 4.0, again with the first being for x86 and the second for x64 versions.

With the release of .NET 4.0 the framework now has two GACs, this stackoverflow post explains why.

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Beware of Automapper modifying protected fields
ByPaul December 14, 2010

I’ve just spent a good couple of hours trying to debug what appeared to be a corrupt session in NHibernate. The unit tests would work, isolating the NHibernate code causing the problem worked, but within the application when calling Session.Save() the code always complained about a corrupt session. Finally, after much investigation and head-scratching, the…

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Add NuGet Reference in Resharper
ByPaul November 20, 2012

Today Jetbrains announced on their blog that they’ve released a resharper nuget package that will obtain project references via nuget, rather than making direct references to the locally installed code. As we are currently in the early stages of transitioning from VS2008 to VS2012 we aren’t ready to start using NuGet(*) but I think I’ll…

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Is .NET development possible without Admin Rights?
ByPaul July 27, 2010

I guess the obvious answer is “yes” as there is always notepad and command line compilation, but if you want to use Visual Studio or do anything with IIS, Message Queues, etc. then the answer quickly becomes a frustrating no! This hasn’t usually been a problem, but having just started in a new job which…

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TFS2010: Publishing solution projects to their own directories
ByPaul February 20, 2012

When looking to automate a TFS2010 build one of the first issues that most people seem to encounter is that all the binaries of each project in a solution end up in the same “bin” directory. The forum post TFS 2010 BUILD SERVER: Can not keep folder tree in the drop location ? details the…

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Upgrading a TeamCity build from VS2008 to VS2012 and using NuGet
ByPaul December 8, 2012

We’ve recently upgraded to Visual Studio 2012 from VS2008 and switched over to using NuGet rather than direct project references for our third party tools. Everything worked as planned until we checked the solution into source control and the personal build for TeamCity kicked off. Almost straight away the build fell over with the following…

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nLog – Updating ExceptionLayoutRenderer to capture “Exception.Data”
ByPaul October 11, 2011

Something that appears to be missing from many logging frameworks is the ability to log/report the “data” collection of any thrown exceptions. I originally encountered this issue with log4net, and have recently found nLog appears to be lacking the same desired functionality. As our current project looks like it will be switching to using nLog…

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