How to run regasm.exe from command line other than Visual Studio command prompt?

Question

Hi

I want to run regasm.exe from cmd. which is avalable in c:\windows\Microsoft.net\framework\2.057

I do like this c:\ regasm.exe

It gives regasm is not recognized as internal or external command.

So I understood that I need to set the path for regasm.exe in environment variable.

For which variable do I need to set the path to run regasm as described above?

Answer 1

In command prompt:

SET PATH "%PATH%;%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.net\framework\2.057"

Answer 2

I use the following in a batch file:

path C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727
regasm httpHelper\bin\Debug\httpHelper.dll /tlb:.\httpHelper.tlb /codebase
pause

Answer 3

You don't need the directory on your path. You could put it on your path, but you don't NEED to do that.
If you are calling regasm rarely, or calling it from a batch file, you may find it is simpler to just invoke regasm via the fully-qualified pathname on the exe, eg:

c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\regasm.exe   MyAssembly.dll

Answer 4

Like Cheeso said:

You don't need the directory on your path. You could put it on your path, but you don't NEED to do that. If you are calling regasm rarely, or calling it from a batch file, you may find it is simpler to just invoke regasm via the fully-qualified pathname on the exe, eg:

%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\regasm.exe MyAssembly.dll

Answer 5

I use this as PostBuildscript in VS.

call "%VS90COMNTOOLS%vsvars32.bat"
regasm $(TargetPath) /tlb