Here's how to troubleshoot when an assembly will not install to the GAC: Q111094: INFO: Troubleshooting .NET Assembly Installation Issues Problem: The assembly will not install to the Global Assembly Cache A. Verify the following information for the assembly: · The assembly must be strong...
Q : I am working on the vsta install and I need to run GacUtil (only found the .config file), regasm (found in the .net framework) and tlbutil (nowhere to be found) on a fresh machine. I have a .bat file that needs to register out COM dll into the GAC. I am finding that the vsta20.exe and the framework...
Post build events are very important in VSTA (versions 1 and 2). They are used to install files in the GAC, organize DLL's for add-in discovery, and in VSTA v 2, to rebuild the pipeline. Here are the files used in post build events by the ShapeApp samples, the commands which run them, and some information...
Overview: During development, changes may need to be made to the proxy. Anytime the proxy is changed its assembly needs to be re-installed in the GAC. Failing to do this will result in the last version installed in the GAC to be used by VSTA and the error "The following module was built either with optimizations...
Back in October 2003, Ted Pattison wrote a good MSDN MAgazine article exploring options for deploying assembly DLLs in both development and production environments. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/10/BasicInstincts/