RE: Application cant find dll even when it's in the same directory

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Hi all,

Yes, I did resolve this problem, I needed to use Dependency Walker (its all
over the net, you should be able to find it with a google) to check that all
of the dll's required by the program were installed. I found that
MSVCR71D.dll wasn't installed (and one of my dll even said it needed
MSJAVA.dll which is very strange considering the code is entirely C++...so I
just stuck it in there anyway). This did the trick.



"Rashmi Jagadish" wrote:

> hi JOhnny,
> Were you ever able to resolve this issue. I read soemthing about ASPNET
> having permission problems on c:\winnt\temp and in spite of having the right
> permission my application also fails with the same error.
>
> Can you please let me know if you resolved it?
>
> "JohnnySparkles" wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm working on an application which uses a dll for some of its classes.
> >
> > I build the application and the dll and it runs fine on any machine with
> > Visual Studio .NET installed on it. Once you take the application and the dll
> > and place them on a machine without Visual Studio .NET the application throws
> > the following error:
> >
> > Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: File or assembly name
> > Clie
> > ntAPI, or one of its dependencies, was not found.
> > File name: "ClientAPI"
> > at main()
> >
> > === Pre-bind state information ===
> > LOG: DisplayName = ClientAPI, Version=1.0.1992.20855, Culture=neutral,
> > PublicKey
> > Token=null
> > (Fully-specified)
> > LOG: Appbase = C:\Documents and Settings\jwieland\Desktop\Signal Testing\
> > LOG: Initial PrivatePath = NULL
> > Calling assembly : TestBed, Version=1.0.1992.20856, Culture=neutral,
> > PublicKeyTo
> > ken=null.
> > ===
> >
> > LOG: Policy not being applied to reference at this time (private, custom,
> > partia
> > l, or location-based assembly bind).
> > LOG: Post-policy reference: ClientAPI, Version=1.0.1992.20855,
> > Culture=neutral,
> > PublicKeyToken=null
> > LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Documents and
> > Settings/jwieland/D
> > esktop/Signal Testing/ClientAPI.DLL.
> >
> > The application is TestBed.exe and the dll is ClientAPI.dll and both are
> > placed in the same directory. Any ideas anyone?
> >
> > Cheers
> > John
> >
.

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