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I'm looking for the assembly binding log viewer executable (fuslogvw.exe), but I can't seem to find it on my machine. It's there for sure because when I type fuslogvw in a Visual Studio command prompt the application opens.
The machine I'm working on has a clean Visual Studio 2008 installation, no previous versions were ever installed.
Does anyone know where to find it? I need the exe to be able to copy it to a server to solve a binding issue.
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Fuslogvw is an assembly log viewer and part of the . NET framework. The location on my machine is “C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft SDKsWindowsv7. 0ABin.” The actual location on your machine may vary.
You must run fuslogvw.exe with administrator privileges. This tool is automatically installed with Visual Studio. To run the tool, use Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt or Visual Studio Developer PowerShell with administrator credentials. The viewer displays an entry for each failed assembly bind.
The Fusion Log Viewer does all that for you. Go to Start -> Programs -> Visual Studio xxxx > Visual Studio Tools > Visual Studio Command Prompt (run as admin) and type "fuslogvw". In Settings you adjust the logging. To turn on/off logging handy, I've created .
ASP.NET Framework has fusion Assembly Binding logging (aka Fusion Logging) which allows you to debug assembly load failures in your . NET applications. Fusion logging comes handy when your application is referencing assemblies or external nuget packages and you are encountering assembly binding failures.
Copy fuslogvw.exe to that machine. You can find it wherever you installed .NET (eg. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.1A\bin\NETFX 4.5.1 Tools\x64\FUSLOGVW.exe)
Fusion Log Viewer is installed with Visual Studio. It should be in your “Microsoft SDKs” folder (Example path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v {SDK version}A\Bin\FUSLOGVW.exe)
Once you have fuslogvw.exe and flogvwrc.dll together in one directory, you can run the log viewer. You don't need registry changes or any other changes. Show activity on this post. Fuslogvw doesn't do the logging. The fusion loader does that. Fuslogvw just displays the log output.
Fusion Log Viewer (fuslogvw.exe) You can also use Microsoft’s Fusion Log Viewer utility (Reference) to enable Fusion Logs. Fusion Log Viewer is installed with Visual Studio. It should be in your “Microsoft SDKs” folder (Example path: C:Program Files (x86)[&Microsoft&] SDKsWindowsv {SDK version}ABinFUSLOGVW.exe)
On my box, also with VS2008, it can be found at
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\fuslogvw.exe
In Windows 7, and Windows 8.1, it's located under the directories that are here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows{version}\bin{.NET Version Tools}
So for Windows 8.1 and .NET 4.5.1:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.1a\bin\NETFX 4.5.1 Tools\
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My Computer has it in a different place under Tools for Visual Studio 2010
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\x64\
Open the folder and run FUSLOGVW.exe as administrator then you can enable the log in settings.
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