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Asked: 2026-05-26T03:45:29+00:00

I am running the datasvcutil.exe command in a prebuild event. datasvcutil.exe is located in

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I am running the datasvcutil.exe command in a prebuild event.

datasvcutil.exe is located in “C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319” (on 64 bit machines.)

I can just hard code this as C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\datasvcutil.exe, but that seems rather brittle. When a hypothetical .net v4.0.30320 comes out my prebuild event will not work anymore.

With the Visual Studio Command prompt, I can call datasvcutil.exe with out the path. I am wondering if there is a similar indirect way to call this from my pre-build event command line.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Since the tool you need is in the same path as MSBuild.exe you could simply reference it with $(MSBuildBinPath)\DataSvcUtil.exe which would make it also independent of Framework / Framework64

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