Just upgraded to the latest Final Builder (5.5.0.627). We also updated this build machine to Visual Studio 2008. I now cannot get my GAC Uninstall and GAC Install steps to work. Under SDK Version, I have checked the radio button for "Use Default SDK Version (v3.5)" - but I am getting error message "The .NET SDK version you are trying to use (v3.5) is not installed. ... "
I have confirmed that gacultil.exe v3.5 is on the machine, and tested it and it works. One thing I've noticed is that Microsoft moved it from the 2005 location of:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\gacutil.exe
Not sure why the new one is not under "Visual Studio 9" folder. But anyway, is this a bug in Final Builder? The fact that it doesnt seem to be able to locate the gacutil.exe? Or is there a way for me to modify the path??
Sorry it’s taken us a while to get back to you. The GAC for 3.5 is the same as the GAC for 2.0, so setting the action to use SDK version 2.0 should be a workaround for now.
I’ll investigate the issue and get back to you. All .NET Framework versions since 2.0 only update some components and not others. It’s quite possible that the path to gacutil.exe has changed for .NET 3.5, and we didn’t pick up on it.
we actually uninstalled Visual Studio 2005 from this machine when we upgraded to 2008, so it removed the previous version of gacutil.exe, so the workaround actually wasnt an option for us.
i just went ahead and added a dos command action and called the new gacutil.exe in the new locaion from the command line.