Hi All,

I have a Build where I am trying to install some dll in the Gac after the Build.

I added the following entry in the build file.

<Exec Command="&quot;$(VSINSTALLDIR)\SDK\v2.0\Bin\GacUtil.exe&quot; -i $(DropLocation)$(Slash)$(BuildNumber)$(Slash)Release/Foundation.Build.Tasks.dll"/>

The entry result in this error:

\BuildType\TFSBuild.proj(172,5): error MSB3073: The command ""\..\..\SDK\v2.0\Bin\GacUtil.exe" -i \\vsts\Drops\Foundation_20061009.9\Release/Foundation.Build.Tasks.dll" exited with code 3.

Where if I use

<Exec Command="&quot;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\GacUtil.exe&quot; -i $(DropLocation)$(Slash)$(BuildNumber)$(Slash)Release/Foundation.Build.Tasks.dll"/>

Everything works perfectly.

I can use the second entry in the short run but I would like to have a more portable solution.

Thank you for any help.

Alessandro

On the build machine, there is a file called Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets, usually found in C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v8.0\TeamBuild.

In this Team Build targets file, you can find the following line:

<VSINSTALLDIR Condition=" '$(VSINSTALLDIR)'=='' and '$(NetSamplePath)'!=''" >$(NetSamplePath)\..\..</VSINSTALLDIR>

The purpose of the line is to help find the code analysis assemblies on the build machine. Somehow it looks like your NetSamplePath is a space or something else that is not empty, but looks empty. So, vsinstalldir gets set to a completely invalid path. It's hard to say what's really happening. But I definitely think you need to set that variable for now. You might want to try using the following property that we pass in to MSBuild on the command line:

/p:TeamBuildRefPath="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies"