Gacutil not installed by default in VisualStudio

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I am unable to add an assembly into GAC. Please assist in getting it work. I ran following command in VisualStudio13 CMD

gacutil /i “<C:\Program Files\ibm\IBM DATA SERVER DRIVER>\bin\netf40_32\IBM.Data.DB2.Entity.dll”

Error Message: Command "gacutil" is not valid.

Also, i checked there is also no gacutil.exe file on path

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools

C:\Program Files (x86)>dir gacutil.exe /s Command gives me following description

But when i access the path there is no gacutil file as shown: Folder view No gacutil present

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It's weird that it's missing. You could try installing the SDK as this answer suggests – Conrad Frix
I installed Windows SDK @Path = C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0 There is still no GACUTIL.exe in it. It must be included in VS13 as well. I went through your suggested answer link earlier but no good :( – BASEER ULHASSAN
I know it sounds obvious but did you try doing something like C:\Program Files (x86)>dir gacutil.exe /s I found no less than 12 versions of it – Conrad Frix
It finds gacutil.exe in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools AND C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\x64. But no such files visible. Also, there are visible gacutil named files in SDK path like C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin however in .\NETFX 4.0 Tools\x64 path i cant find one. – BASEER ULHASSAN
I'm confused. You say that dir finds it but then you say no such files are visible. Can you explain what you mean by not visible? – Conrad Frix

2 Answers

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The issue was Windows Explorer path(C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\gacutil.exe) had no "gacutil.exe". Accessing the same path through cmd listed down "gacutil.exe" as present.

Thus, instead of just giving command gacutil-i to add an assembly in cache, i gave full path

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\NETFX 4.0Tools\gacutil.exe -i

Don't trust windows explorer. Trust command credits@ Sir Conrad Frix-Comments

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You can either drag-drop the .dll into c:\windows\assembly folder or check C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v10.0A\bin\NETFX 4.6 Tools\x64 for gacutil as its part of .net framework, not your IDE. Hope it helps!