Retrieving the Fusion log
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If the exception
message isn’t enough for you to determine what the problem is, try getting the
Fusion log. It will describe the
binding failure (if this is due to an assembly binding failure, instead of a
loading failure after the file is found).
Usually, the exception will include a Fusion log. If not, to get the log: run
fuslogvw.exe, click on ‘Log Failures’.
If this is an ASP.NET or .NET Windows service app, select the “Custom”
option, and in regedit, set [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion\LogPath] to point to
some directory (like c:\mylogs, not c:\). If you need to log all binds, not just
failing ones, set [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion\ForceLog] as a DWORD value, to
1. Then, re-run the process.
Next, click ‘Refresh’ in fuslogvw, and a line should appear for each binding
failure (or for each bind, if ForceLog is set). Double-click on the line
for this exception, and a web page should come up with the Fusion
log.
If the file was
found, it was loaded from the last path probed in the log (or from the GAC, if
there is no path probed).
