On my dev system I VS 2010 installed, followed by the VS 2012 beta. I had to uninstall that at one point do to a confliction with CodeSmith and the .Net 4.5 Beta. It seems after that my dev systems is missing a few dlls and I specifically need the 'Microsoft.ReportViewer.DataVisualization.dll'. I've checked the 'C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL' path and there is no 'Microsoft.ReportViewer.DataVisualization' folder. Is there any other way I can go about getting a copy of this dll?
Have a look in the windows SDK folder:
%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\ReportViewer\ReportViewer.exe
It should install the required dll.
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I have read similar questions on SO and other forums but can't what I want. I have obfuscated my binaries using 3rd party tools, and want to use these binaries in the setup.
Visual Studio Installer lets us choose the projects we want to deploy, and creates the installer using the outputs of those projects.
WiX creates a setup using the files I want but does not have an option to install .NET framework, if it doesn't already exists.
Is there a way I can use my own assemblies in Visual Studio Installer ? Or a similar alternative ?
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I have already packed all dependencies in the binary. I don't want the installer to find the dependencies for linking them. I just want it to install .net (if not already installed) and place the binaries in a directory.
Not exactly the answer you'd hope for, but you mentioned WIX and dependency to .net framework. For that reason people write bootstrappers (i.e. a binary compiled to native win32) using something like Autoit which makes sure of the framework. All you may have to do is read registry key of corresponding framework and if required it pull down the file and install. Then execute the msi !
You can use the good old Visual Studio Setup Project (Installer Project) template.
To do so, you need to download the Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects depending to your VS version from one of the following links:
Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects 2013
Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects 2015
Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects 2017 and 2019
Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects 2022
The project could be used to deploy anything, including your project or instead of adding Project Output you can simply right click on your setup project node in solution explorer and under Add menu, add File or Assembly.
Then all dependencies will be added automatically. You can also add other files and artifacts that you need to be installed on target machine.
I have a custom image with Node.js, Microsoft Build Tools 2013, Windows SDK for Windows 8.1, .Net Framework 4.5.1 SDK, Microsoft Test Controller for Visual Studio 2013, Microsoft Agents for Visual Studio 2013 and Microsoft Web Deploy 3.5 installed.
Most things are working but I am struggling to get the project to package. I do not need the project to deploy directly to a web server; a zip will do fine.
On my dev machine I have a publish profile set that creates a folder with the content of my web project as I would expect. On the build server the project builds with no errors but no publishing happens. No error messages either.
I have tried a lot of potential solutions and these range from VS2010 to VS2013 but I have not had a success yet.
My publish profile and configuration is DevTest:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\12.0\Bin\msbuild.exe" MyWeb.csproj /p:Configuration=DevTest /p:VisualStudioVersion=12.0 /p:CreatePackageOnPublish=true /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:Configuration=DevTest
Any help is appreciated!
I have managed to get this to work but I don't have a clean answer. I am guessing this is why there has not been any replies.
MSBuild is a complex beast mostly because it references many paths outside of the project. In my instance MSBuild was looking for ReportViewer.WebForms and other references in different installation locations. My project was referencing v10 but the reference location MSBuild was using looking for version 11.
I'm writing a customized activity for TFS build process workflow, e.g. guideline here.
The post requires to add reference to Microsoft.TeamFoundation.TestImpact.Client.dll at path C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.TestImpact.Client\10.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a. I cannot find this path on my machine installing Visual Studio 2012.
Where would I find this reference?
This is an old thread, but in case anyone else runs into this, just download the stand alone TFS Object Model installer.
As the other answer states, it's shipped with VS 2010 so you'll need to install that and then you should be able to find it.
For any of you trying to do this with VS 2013 / TFS 2013 you need Microsoft.TeamFoundation.TestImpact.Client version=12.0.0.0
This file is located in the folder
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.TestImpact.Client\v4.0_12.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a
Version 10.0 of the file is shipped with Team Explorer or Visual Studio 2010.
It is copied directly to the GAC but you can extract it using the command line COPY command.
Install VS 2010 on your machine, open a command prompt and navigate to C:\Windows\GAC_MSIL\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.TestImpact.Client\{Version}\
Then COPY Microsoft.TeamFoundation.TestImpact.Client.dll to a folder of your choice.
Finally, my advice would be that you use the version included in VS 2012, that would make things much easier. The method described above also works for Microsoft.TeamFoundation.TestImpact.Client.dll 11.0 (aka VS 2012 version).
I'm in a bit of trouble here. I upgraded one of our Winforms products from VS2008 to VS2010 about 4 weeks ago. The conversion was fine but we used Crystal Reports so had to install the VS2010 Crsytal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. This was fine and gave me the designer etc. back for crystal. I chose not to convert the reports when the solution opens so they are still setup for the original version of crystal.
We then continued with 4 weeks worth of development and now I come to do my first ClickOnce deploy under Vsiaul Studio 2010 and I'm having serious issues. ClickOnce Application files are set to having CrystalReports related modules as Prerequisites. I still want the end user to use the Crystal Reports for VS2008 rather than the runtime for 2010 which is ridiculously big and a beta.
When I publish the manifest is saying that the dependency for crystal is on version 14.0.2000.0 (VS2010 version of crystal report) but all the DLL references in the projects are set to use specific version and to point to 10.5.3700.0 (VS2008 version of crystal report). This means when trying to install from ClickOnce it fails saying:
"Unable to install or run the application The application requires that assembly CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine Version 14.0.2000.0 be installed in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) first)"
I can't work out why the manifest is intent on using that version number given all the references are pointing to another version. If I bundle the VS2010 crystal runtimes that are beta into the ClickOnce deploy then the client gets the opposite error message saying that 10.5.3700.0 is required. If I install 10.5.3700.0 on the client they get a working system but I have to install the 10.5.3700.0 version manually and before that they've first had to endure an epic install of the 2010 runtime (14.0.2000.0) which doesn't even get used.
Essentially I am trying to get the manifest to say 10.5.3700.0 or figure out why VS2010 is intent on putting a newer version number in there.
Please help. Thanks
I converted the solution back to VS2008. Going back was relatively seamless. Since Crystal is in beta, the runtimes used to be ridiculously big, and I was losing large amounts of time on the ClickOnce deploys. The rollback solved all three.
I'm not happy about going back but the realities of using Crystal Reports in the year 2010 are pretty bad. I'll monitor progress from SAP as I know they are aiming to reduce runtimes this quarter and move out of beta.
Do you have the new CR stuff installed on your computer where you are building the application? If so, it's probably referencing the assemblies in the GAC.
You can try copying the assemblies you need into the project and setting the reference to point at the local copies, then on the reference set "copy local" to true. This will make sure it is referencing the local copies and not the ones in the GAC.
If that doesn't work, I would try copying the prerequisite for the previous version of Crystal Reports from the VS2008 folder to the VS2010 folder. You will find the packages here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages (64-bit machine)
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages
Then close and reopen Visual Studio, and the old prerequisite should show up in VS and allow you to select it.
I am in the process to setup our new Win7 build machine for our C# project. We don't want to install Visual Studio on that machine. So I am following the instruction "Running mstest without Visual Studio" to setup our machine.
On step 3:
Put Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.Resource.dll and
Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework.dll in the GAC on the CIServer,
because that is where they are on the DevMachine.
On my develoopment machine (installed Visual Studio 2008 professional version) I found both of them in my GAC (C:\windows\assembly) but I searched my entire development machine and couldn't find the Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.Resource.dll
My questions are:
where to get the Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.Resource.dll?
can I copy above file from GAC? (I tried gacutil.exe, there is no such copy option. I tried Control Panel->Administrative Tools, but my XP machine only has Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 Configuration on which above two assembly didn't show up.)?
thanks,
You can copy files from the GAC via cmd.exe. E.g.:
copy C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.Resource\10.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.Resource.dll C:\Temp
Adjust the version appropriately.
Windows Explorer just replaces the subfolders in C:\Windows\assembly with the aggregated view you might know.
my Version Of this Dll currently sites at the following location C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ReferenceAssemblies\v2.0 due to using vs2010 so change the path accordingly to get it from your machine
if you need to run this in isolation create a tools folder in your folder structure thats checked into source control and then reference the dll from that tools folder and NOT from the GAC. this means that when it builds on the build machine it wont need Visual Studio installed
Maybe you have a 64 bit machine. In that case, it's here.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
10.0\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies\Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework.dll
Run the command below if you use VS2008
copy C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.Resource\9.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.Resource.dll c:\temp