Running GACUtil in Build for Visual Studio 2005

It took me absolutly ages to find why I couldn't run GACUtil or the RegAsm.exe from a build script. It is because VS2005 Beta 2 doesn't seem to load the PATH Envionment variables at build time. This results in VS2005 Beta 2 not being able to find the files it needs. There is a simple cure to this problem

The Following doesn't work and causes build errors (because the build script doesn't run)

cd $(ProjectDir)\bin\Release
gacutil.exe /if Favorites.dllregasm Favorites.dll

If you add the following line in: CALL "%VS80COMNTOOLS%\vsvars32.bat" > NULLso that you get:

CALL "%VS80COMNTOOLS%\vsvars32.bat" > NULLcd $(ProjectDir)\bin\Release
gacutil.exe /if Favorites.dllregasm Favorites.dll

It works fine. The extra line in the build script seems to load the environment varibles that VS2005 Beta 2 needs.

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