Re: Executing gacutil in post-build event by mustang
mustang
Tue Jan 29 08:33:01 CST 2008
I learned that disabling UAC allows gacutil to succeed, but so does UAC
enabled and running VS as adminstrator. I appreciate the help for this Vista
newbie.
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-mustang
"Phil Wilson" wrote:
> Gacutil doesn't demand elevation (it runs asInvoker) so I think that your
> Visual Studio build isn't running elevated (I doubt you run it as
> administrator), therefore gacutil won't run elevated and can fail to add
> assemblies to the GAC.
>
> It doesn't matter if you an administrator - default behavior on Vista is to
> run as a limited user.
> --
> Phil Wilson
> [MVP Windows Installer]
>
> "mustang" <mustang@community.nospam> wrote in message
> news:41A93FAB-7248-4756-B103-2AD1A4F1B329@microsoft.com...
> >I am currently working on a project using Visual Studio 2005 and I recently
> > upgraded my machine to Vista. One thing I am doing in this project is
> > building all dlls to a common bin folder and then GACing the dlls using
> > the
> > gacutil command in the post build event. In Windows XP this workied fine,
> > but
> > in Vista I get a build error, "gacutil...exited with code 1." My account
> > that
> > I do development with is a member of the local administrators group, so I
> > am
> > confused that the gacutil command would fail. Is there something else I
> > need
> > to do to get the gacutil command to execute in the post build event in
> > Visual
> > Studio?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > --
> > -mustang
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