where to find Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.Resource.dll?

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

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

Answer 2

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

Windows Explorer just replaces the subfolders in C:\Windows\assembly with the aggregated view you might know.