I have this problem tring to build one solution
Task could not find "AL.exe" using the SdkToolsPath "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\" or the registry key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A". Make sure the SdkToolsPath is set and the tool exists in the correct processor specific location under the SdkToolsPath and that the Microsoft Windows SDK is installed
I know there is a similar question, but the aswer didn't work for me
In the same computer a can build other solutions in Net 4 without any problem, so don't understand
I'm using:
Windows XP Professional SP3
Visual Web Developer 2010 Express
Easiest thing to do is copy al.exe
from
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\
(For Windows 10 from
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v10.0A\bin\NETFX 4.6 Tools)
to
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\
As I got this issue in VS2019 after a fresh install of both Windows and Visual Studio 2019 I thought it might be good to share:
Installing Microsoft.Net.Component.4.7.2.SDK from the Visual Studio installer fixed it for me!
Do you have any resource files in your project? Try to delete all of them and build your project again.
I've got exact the same error and after deleting the resource files (*.hrsx) my build worked again.
Maybe it helps.
I am using VS2019, this way works for me:
Add a system env variable TargetFrameworkSDKToolsDirectory
like this:
TargetFrameworkSDKToolsDirectory=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v10.0A\bin\NETFX 4.6.2 Tools
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I'm using Windows 7 SP1 and Visual studio Ultimate 2013. TFS server 2013 is installed in Windows Server 2008.
Below error occurred while trying to build one solution which supports multilingual resx files:
C:\Program Files
(x86)\MSBuild\12.0\bin\amd64\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets
(3001): Task could not find "AL.exe" using the SdkToolsPath "" or the
registry key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft
SDKs\Windows\v8.1A\WinSDK-NetFx40Tools-x86". Make sure the
SdkToolsPath is set and the tool exists in the correct processor
specific location under the SdkToolsPath and that the Microsoft
Windows SDK is installed
I have gone through similar questions, but those solutions didn't work. Few are given below:
Install Windows SDK
Windows SDK is already installed
al.exe is present in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.1A\bin\NETFX 4.5.1 Tools
al.exe is present in \Windows\v7.0A\bin and v8.0A\bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools
Remove resx files and build
Resx files are part of the project and I want them to be in my build.
Any idea to fix this issue?
Thanks for your comments. I installed Windows SDK in server machine, where TFS is installed. It solved my problem.
Having tried to follow all advices, remedies and workarounds including removing and reinstalling the Multi-Device Hybrid Apps for Visual Studio CPT1 I still can't seem to do a successful build of the included "Blank App (Apache Cordova)" project.
Build ends consistently in one single error:
The command ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7
\IDE\Extensions\k04kuuo3.ie0\packages\vs-mda\install" "C:\Program Files (x86)
\nodejs\" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7
\IDE\Extensions\k04kuuo3.ie0\packages\vs-mda"" exited with code 8.
File %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\vs-mda-targets\Microsoft.MDA.targets
Line 108
Column 5
Project BlankCordovaApp1
Environment settings:
ADT_HOME %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk
ANT_HOME C:\apache-ant-1.9.3
GIT_HOME C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd
JAVA_HOME C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_55
PATH %JAVA_HOME%\bin;%ANT_HOME%\bin;%ADT_HOME%\platform-tools;%ADT_HOME%\tools;
C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Windows
Performance Toolkit\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn\;
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\TypeScript\1.0\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment\
(contains no reference to "Platform")
Your kind help is very much appreciated, Thanks Ian
I just ran into this on one of my PCs and here's how I got it fixed:
Quit Visual Studio
Open the Android SDK manager by typing the Windows key and then "SDK manager", hit enter
Install Android Build Tools Rev 19 by checking the box next to it and clicking Install packages
Accept the license
Open Visual Studio and your project, then run it again
Jordan (Microsoft, Multi-Device Hybrid Apps tools team)
Finally the light bulb went on for me: The problem was the install batch files not being able to locate xcopy.exe and therefore the simple remedy was to just extend the path variable with
%SystemRoot%\system32;
The build now runs without further errors.
Thanks Jordan and Ian.
I ended up doing both.
I ran the Android SDK manager to install the Android Build Tools Rev 19 as well as some other updates.
I also added "%SystemRoot%\system32;" to the PATH environment variable.
Everything running as it should.
I'm trying to make a universal Windows App with WinJS. I've downloaded the latest update to VS2013. The RC version. I've installed all the SDKs I can find. I've installed the WinLibJS_VSE.exe extension, as well. Funny thing about that one is that VS updates keeps saying that I didn't...
When I open up any of the sample universal WinJS apps - like the ones here http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wpapps/Universal-Windows-app-cb3248c3 - I always end up with this error:
Could not find SDK "Microsoft.Phone.WinJS.2.1, Version=1.0". C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\12.0\bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets
I tried finding this SDK on my machine, but I'm not finding it at all. Nor am I finding it online. I copied some SDKs from C:\Program Files (x86) into C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs to no avail.
Any ideas?
The Windows Phone SDK should have been installed when you installed the Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate Update 2 RC.
The files should be located here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\WindowsPhoneApp\v8.1\ExtensionSDKs\Microsoft.Phone.WinJS.2.1\1.0\DesignTime\CommonConfiguration\Neutral\Microsoft.Phone.WinJS.2.1\js
When you create a C# project, is it a Silverlight project or a Windows Runtime project?
Okay, I've been talking to the Visual Studio team about this.
Did you happen to install the "Visual Studio 2013 Extensions for the Windows Library for JavaScript"?
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40793
(In the Programs and Features list, it will appear as "Visual Studio Extension for Windows Library for JavaScript".)
If so, you'll need to uninstall it. The order for uninstall is:
Visual Studio 2013
Visual Studio Update 2 RC
"Visual Studio Extension for the Windows Library for JavaScript"
After the uninstall, reinstall in this order:
Visual Studio 2013
Visual Studio Update 2 RC
Of course, all of this assumes that you've already upgraded your development environment to Windows 8.1. These projects will only work on a Windows 8.1 machine.
I hope that this helps. If not, we can try something else.
The final release of Visual Studio seems to have resolved this issue.
http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs
I had the same problem and I tried all above none of them work. However the following worked for me:
1-) Uninstall Visual Studio extensions for Javascript
2-) Uninstall visual studio 2013
3-) Install visual studio 2013 with Update 2 RC from the following link (it is VS + update 2 bundled)
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=42303
Above link is for Premium edition. Find the relevant link accoringly.
P.S It is quite lame that when you uninstall Visual studio , it doesn't uninstall some of its addins. And you have lot of remaining artifacts :(
Andy (and potentially others running into this issue)....
We are currently investigating into this issue to understand the root cause. If this issue is blocking you from development, the recommendation is to perform the following steps "carefully". If these steps do not help, then please let us know!
Uninstall Visual Studio 2013 from Programs and Features
Reboot machine if prompted
Delete or rename these folders-
I. \Documents\Visual Studio 2013
II. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0
III. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0
IV. \AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0
V. \AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0
VI. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0
VII. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\8.1
VIII. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\
IX. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\WindowsPhoneAppx\
X. C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Phone Silverlight Kits
XI. C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Phone Kits
XII. C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\WindowsPhone
XIII. C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\WindowsPhoneAppx
XIV. C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Phone Tools
Go to the registry editor (start >> run >> regedit) and remove/rename the following registries-
I. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0
II. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0
III. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0
IV. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0_Config
Download the .iso image of Visual Studio 2013 preferably using the relevant MSDN account
Extract the .iso file by using an extraction tool, such as WinRar (http://www.rarlab.com/rar/winrar-x64-401.exe) remember to associate .iso extension with WinRar during its setup
Install Visual Studio 2013 using this extracted setup
Install the Visual Studio Update 2 RC from here: _http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42307
Check if the templates are appearing
You can then install the Windows Phone standalone SDK from here: _https://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/downloadsdk or through the Visual Studio extensions.
I am using Windows 7. I don't have the makecert.exe, which I came to know when I tried to run commands to generate certificates like
makecert -sk XYZ -n "CN=XYZ Company" testXYZ.cer
I get error :
'makecert' is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Pls suggest how to resolve this issue. Do i need to install the Windows SDK again.
Regards,
Pravin.
makecert.exe comes with both Visual Studio and the Windows SDK. Therefore just use either the Visual Studio Command Prompt or the Windows SDK command prompt and it will work straight out of the box as it will be included in the command prompt path.
makecert is included in the ".NET Development > Tools" bucket.
This selected bucket includes the makecert utility (at least in SDK v7.1).
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\bin\x64
OR
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\bin\x86
You can find a version of makecert here : http://www.inventec.ch/chdh/notes/makecert_5_131_3790_0.zip. Also instructions on how to use it here : http://www.inventec.ch/chdh/notes/14.htm
Have you read this link: MakeCert? It sends you to Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit from where you can download the SDK including makecert
I know its too late to reply, however it might help other looking out for this executable.
if you have installed VS 2005, you will find it under
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools\Bin
if you have installed VS 2008, you will find it under
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\SmartDevices\SDK\SDKTools
go to this location on command prompt and then run you "makecert" command with arguments.
MakeCert.exe is now deprecated. You should use PowerShell's New-SelfSignedCertificate cmdlet to create a selfsigned certificate.
You can find it on microsoft sdks directory:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\makecert.exe
My copy (with Visual Studio 2017 installed) was here: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.17134.0\x64\makecert.exe"
Ran into the same problem awhile back and thought I would share the link I found to download and install this tool.
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=84091
Please let me know if this works if you do get around to it, I realize this post is a little old.
Windows 10 after installing Windows SDKs:
If you have ARM microprocessor: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.17134.0\arm64
Intel microprocessor: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.17134.0\x64
Add that folder to your PATH environment variable
I'm trying to publish a program in vs2008 but I get the following error,
can not publish because a project failed to build.
An error occurred while signing: signtool.exe not found.
I've been searching Google for some time now but I can't find the answer.
I can't find signtool.exe; can anyone tell me where I can get it?
signtool.exe is included with the Windows SDK, and a copy of the Windows SDK is included with VS2008.
It should be installed as %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\signtool.exe, but it might depend on installation options.
Another route is to install the Windows SDK directly (latest version includes Win7/2008R2 support).
VS 2008 - This tool is located at,
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin
Probably you could find in any one of this location.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools\Bin
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin