Deploying a dll to the GAC and recycling the application pool

When developing a sharepoint dll in Visual Studio 2005 the quickest way to deploy and test your dll is to automate it with a post build event.



How do we do this?

1.- Open the properties window for your project... solution explorer> right click project name > select properties.



2.- Click "Build Events".



3.- Paste
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\gacutil" -i "$(TargetPath)" } C:\Recycle.vbs

in to the "Post-build event command line" field.

4.- Create a new text file with the following script:

strAppPoolName = "Sharepoint - 80"
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{authenticationLevel=pktPrivacy}\\"& strComputer & "\root\microsoftiisv2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * From IIsApplicationPool Where Name = 'W3SVC/AppPools/" & strAppPoolName & "'")
For Each objItem in colItems
    objItem.Recycle
Next
Wscript.echo "Recycle Completed"

5.- Save as C:\Recycle.vbs