Showing posts with label assembly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label assembly. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

automate GACing assembly

Hi,

Unfortunately the deployment Utility does not support adding dll's to the GAC. Still I want to automate it. (By the way on target machines GacUtil is not present). I tried to make a setup project that only adds a dll to the GAC, however the setup project still makes an application folder. How can I turn this off?

Regards,
Henk

I haven't used the Visual Studio installer projects for some time, but is there not a File page in the project? Can you not delete the app folder in that File page?

Saying that I can highly recomend WiX as a method of generating MSIs. Checkout the very good tutorial if you are interested.

Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset
(http://wix.sourceforge.net/)

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