Question

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:

1. where to get the Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.Resource.dll?
2. 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,

Answer 1

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.