How to install ajaxControlToolKit.dll in gac - ajaxcontroltoolkit

I have two different version dll of ajaxcontroltoolkit in a project, i can not put both in bin folder so i need to install them in gac. How to do it.

In order to add an assembly into the GAC, the assembly needs to be strongly named.
If you have the code, you can do it and then add it to the GAC.
If you don't have the code but the assembly itself, you still can strong name the assembly using the Assembly Linker :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xc31ft41.aspx
al /out:MyAssembly.dll MyModule.netmodule /keyfile:sgKey.snk
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Accessing local built DLL in Visual Studio Code project

So i got roslyn built on my Mac OSX in a folder
dotnet/roslyn/Binaries/Debug/csccore
Here is the list of files I get
CommonNetCoreReferences_DoNotUse.dll*
CommonNetCoreReferences_DoNotUse.pdb*
Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.dll*
Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.pdb*
Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.xml*
Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.dll*
Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.pdb*
Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.xml*
Microsoft.DiaSymReader.Native.amd64.dll*
Microsoft.DiaSymReader.Native.x86.dll*
Microsoft.Win32.Primitives.dll*
Microsoft.Win32.Registry.dll*
System.AppContext.dll*
System.Collections.Concurrent.dll*
System.Collections.Immutable.dll*
System.Collections.dll*
System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.dll*
System.Console.dll*
System.Core.dll*
System.Diagnostics.Debug.dll*
System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo.dll*
System.Diagnostics.Process.dll*
System.Diagnostics.StackTrace.dll*
System.Diagnostics.Tools.dll*
System.Diagnostics.Tracing.dll*
System.Dynamic.Runtime.dll*
System.Globalization.Calendars.dll*
System.Globalization.Native.dylib*
System.Globalization.dll*
System.IO.Compression.Native.dylib*
System.IO.Compression.dll*
System.IO.FileSystem.Primitives.dll*
System.IO.FileSystem.Watcher.dll*
System.IO.FileSystem.dll*
System.IO.Pipes.dll*
System.IO.dll*
System.Linq.Expressions.dll*
System.Linq.dll*
System.Native.a*
System.Native.dylib*
System.Net.Http.Native.dylib*
System.Net.NameResolution.dll*
System.Net.Primitives.dll*
System.Net.Sockets.dll*
System.Net.dll*
System.Numerics.dll*
System.ObjectModel.dll*
System.Private.CoreLib.dll*
System.Private.CoreLib.ni.dll*
System.Private.Uri.dll*
System.Reflection.Emit.ILGeneration.dll*
System.Reflection.Emit.Lightweight.dll*
System.Reflection.Emit.dll*
System.Reflection.Extensions.dll*
System.Reflection.Metadata.dll*
System.Reflection.Primitives.dll*
System.Reflection.TypeExtensions.dll*
System.Reflection.dll*
System.Resources.ResourceManager.dll*
System.Runtime.Extensions.dll*
System.Runtime.Handles.dll*
System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation.dll*
System.Runtime.InteropServices.dll*
System.Runtime.Loader.dll*
System.Runtime.Numerics.dll*
System.Runtime.Serialization.dll*
System.Runtime.dll*
System.Security.Claims.dll*
System.Security.Cryptography.Algorithms.dll*
System.Security.Cryptography.Cng.dll*
System.Security.Cryptography.Csp.dll*
System.Security.Cryptography.Encoding.dll*
System.Security.Cryptography.Native.dylib*
System.Security.Cryptography.OpenSsl.dll*
System.Security.Cryptography.Primitives.dll*
System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.dll*
System.Security.Principal.Windows.dll*
System.Security.Principal.dll*
System.ServiceModel.Web.dll*
System.ServiceModel.dll*
System.Text.Encoding.CodePages.dll*
System.Text.Encoding.Extensions.dll*
System.Text.Encoding.dll*
System.Text.RegularExpressions.dll*
System.Threading.Overlapped.dll*
System.Threading.Tasks.Extensions.dll*
System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.dll*
System.Threading.Tasks.dll*
System.Threading.Thread.dll*
System.Threading.ThreadPool.dll*
System.Threading.dll*
System.Windows.dll*
System.Xml.Linq.dll*
System.Xml.ReaderWriter.dll*
System.Xml.Serialization.dll*
System.Xml.XDocument.dll*
System.Xml.XPath.XDocument.dll*
System.Xml.XPath.dll*
System.Xml.XmlDocument.dll*
System.Xml.dll*
System.dll*
corerun*
csc*
csc.cmd
csc.exe*
csc.exe.config*
csc.pdb*
csc.xml*
libclrjit.dylib*
libcoreclr.dylib*
libdbgshim.dylib*
libmscordaccore.dylib*
libmscordbi.dylib*
libsos.dylib*
mscorlib.dll*
mscorlib.ni.dll*
pbcopy
sosdocsunix.txt*
Now how do i get it using in Visual Studio Code?
How do i refer local DLLs?
.Net Core projects can reference dependencies in two ways:
NuGet packages
project-to-project references
Notably, directly referencing assemblies is missing.
This means you have two options:
Build Roslyn NuGet packages, put them into a directory and configure that directory as a package source using NuGet.Config for your .Net Core project. Then reference the packages normally.
Make the relevant Roslyn projects part of your solution using global.json and then reference them as projects using "target": "project" instead of specifying a version of the package in project.json.

Entity Framework 7 with Universal Windows Platform Add-Migration

I'm trying to implement Universal Windows Platform application with EntityFramework and SQLite (according to: http://ef.readthedocs.org/en/latest/platforms/uwp/getting-started.html) but I have problem with Add-Migration command.
Here is my setup:
Visual Studio 2015 Update 1
EntityFramework.SQLite: "7.0.0-rc1-final"
Error that I got while adding migrations is:
Could not load file or assembly 'System.Collections.Immutable, Version=1.1.36.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)
Thanks in advance for your help!
It is clearly that you miss a dll "System.Collections.Immutable, Version=1.1.36.0" in your project.
To solve this problem, you can open the Nuget tool, and search for System.Collections.Immutable, then in the "Version" label select the Version 1.1.36, by default it is the latest version 1.1.37.
You can also try to update your VS tool, this possible may also solve your problem.

Get assembly location in CoreCLR

Under CoreCLR, I cannot get the assembly location like I was able to under .NET Framework.
It appears that Location is not a member of Assembly and that the static methods on Assembly, such as GetExecutingAssembly, are also gone.
What is the preferred method to get the assembly directory, or any directory information about my running program?
I've tried CoreCLR versions:
1.0.0-beta5 coreclr x64
1.0.0-beta6 coreclr x86
Since you mention 1.0.0-beta6 I assume you are talking about DNX.
You can use IApplicationEnvironment. That will give you the name and base path of the application.
Assembly.Location would be tricky because you can have code that's compiled on the fly so the assembly is not in a location that you might expect.

How do I reference a UWP+NET46 portable library from a .NET 4.6 console application?

I have a portable class library project that targets .NET 4.6 and Universal Windows Platform. This class library contains just one class with the following line of code in its constructor:
Directory.CreateDirectory(Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), Guid.NewGuid().ToString()));
Now I create a new .NET 4.6 console application project in the same solution and add a project reference to the portable class library. Calling the method that houses the above line of code results in the following exception at runtime:
Could not load file or assembly 'System.IO.FileSystem, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
What am I doing wrong here? There are no compile-time errors or warnings.
Things I have tried: add missing(?) NuGet package manually
It seems that System.IO.FileSystem is a library delivered via NuGet, as part of the Microsoft.NETCore mega-package. Okay, perhaps I need to explicitly add this package to any project that uses my portable class library. I attempt to do so.
Could not install package 'Microsoft.NETCore.Platforms 1.0.0'. You are trying to install this package into a project that targets '.NETFramework,Version=v4.6', but the package does not contain any assembly references or content files that are compatible with that framework. For more information, contact the package author.
No luck with this approach.
Things I have tried: create a project.json file
While there is no clear info on the web, I read a few tidbits about a new project.json based NuGet harness or build system. Just to experiment, I created the following project.json file in my console application project:
{
"dependencies": {
},
"frameworks": {
"net46": { }
},
"runtimes": {
"win-anycpu": { }
}
}
It works! The runtime error goes away! However, I soon found that this was either not the right solution or not a complete solution. I started writing some code to read configuration section values, which involved making use of the IConfigurationSectionHandler interface, and got the following compile-time error:
error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'IConfigurationSectionHandler' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
This interface is part of the System assembly. I see a reference to this assembly, but it has a yellow exclamation mark icon, and a warning appears in the warnings window:
The referenced component 'System' could not be found.
This is where I ran out of ideas. Am I missing something totally obvious?
I have found the solution. My initial attempt was to install the Microsoft.NETCore package into the console application, resulting in the error shown in my original post.
However, if I install only the narrowly-scoped packages, e.g. System.IO.FileSystem, then I achieve success and the application works correctly. Apparently there is something special about the Microsoft.NETCore "master package" that prevents it from correctly installing into dependent projects.

Loading a NuGet assembly in T4 Template

I need to reference a Type in one of the assemblies referenced by the project containing my Visual Studio T4 template. However, the referenced assembly is installed from a NuGet package. As that Nuget reference evolves, so will the path that NuGet places it in within my solution's packages folder. For example, suppose my NuGet package is:
Facade.Contract.1.0.1-alpha
Then the relative path to it from my project is:
..\packages\Facade.Contract.1.0.1-alpha\lib\net4\Facade.Contract.dll
If the prerelease is updated to beta, that path will change. When the package is released, the path will change. And every time the path changes, the assembly line in my *.tt file is out of date:
<## assembly name="..\packages\Facade.Contract.1.0.1-alpha\lib\net4\Facade.Contract.dll" #>
I don't think there's a way to accomplish this directly with the assembly directive; however, I'm open to some crazy ideas. Could I load the assembly myself into the current, or a subordinate or reflection-only AppDomain?
I think I could, but I'm not sure how to go about dynamically discovering the path to the referenced assembly in the project's references using T4 logic.
Any ideas?
I've found a solution using VSLangProject as suggested by this article: http://t4-editor.tangible-engineering.com/blog/add-references-to-visual-studio-project-from-t4-template.html
Given a string serviceContractReferenceAssembly a to identify the name of the reference assembly in my containing project, and serviceContractReferenceType to identify the type within that assembly, the following worked:
var templateItem = dte.Solution.FindProjectItem(this.Host.TemplateFile);
var project = templateItem.ContainingProject;
var vsProject = project.Object as VSLangProj.VSProject;
foreach(var referenceObj in vsProject.References)
{
var reference = (VSLangProj.Reference)referenceObj;
if(reference.Name != serviceContractReferenceAssembly) continue;
var serviceContractAssembly = Assembly.LoadFile(reference.Path);
var serviceContractType = serviceContractAssembly.GetType(serviceContractReferenceType);
// Do something with it here
}
The Nuget team has made an extension available that allows you some control over the packages in a solution/project. So if you have control over the environment and can be sure everyone has this installed you might be able to search for the installed packages and then dynamically load them during your T4 execution. Since these Nuget assemblies are already complied and not part of your solution/project I would think using the standard Assembly.Load would work but you would need to test that.