Tips & Tricks: quick deployment of .DLLs to GAC

Quick Tips & Tricks 
In this post I will try to put some of the tips & tricks we are using every day as a SharePoint developers. Hopefully you will find something that will help you and make your life a bit easier

Tip 1 - quick deployment of .DLLs:
One of the most used by me: PS script for quick deployment of DLLs in GAC and recycle the application pools. Every SharePoint developer is doing this at least 20 times per day. Of course we can use the deployment options of Visual Studio but usually when the change is in code behind we want a short way to replace only the current .dll and recycle the application pools with 1 click only (compared to CKSDev tools that will require at least 4 mouse clicks for the same):
    Step 1:  Create PowerShell script for deployment to GAC and app pool recycling. Let's name it RecycleCoreDLL.ps1 with the following code:

$appPoolName = "intranet.sharepointmasters.eu"
$appPool = get-wmiobject -namespace "root\MicrosoftIISv2" -class "IIsApplicationPool" | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq "W3SVC/APPPOOLS/$appPoolName"}
$appPool.Recycle()

& 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\gacutil.exe' /u SharepointMasters.Portal.Core

& 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\gacutil.exe' /i C:\Projects\SharepointMasters\SharepointMasters.Portal.Core\bin\Debug\SharepointMasters.Portal.Core.dll

& 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\gacutil.exe' /u SharepointMasters.Portal

& 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\gacutil.exe' /i C:\Projects\SharepointMasters\SharepointMasters.Portal\bin\Debug\SharepointMasters.Portal.dll

Here it is how it looks like:

All you need to change is the name of Application Pool and name of the assemblies. In this example I have 2 .DLL I want to deploy:
SharepointMasters.Portal.dll
SharepointMasters.Portal.Core.dll


    Step 2: create .bat file that will execute the PS script we just created. In my case I created   RecycleCore.bat with only 1 line in it:
         powershell.exe .\RecycleCoreDLL.ps1

That's it. Now  we have 1 click quick deployment