assemblies

Build a Visual Studio Project without access to referenced dlls

I have a project which has a set of binary dependencies (assembly dlls for which I do no have the source code). At runtime those dependencies are required pre-installed on the machine and at compile time they are required in the source tree, e,g in a lib folder. As I'm also making source code available for this program I would like to e...

How can I use the SSRS ReportViewer from VS 2008 in a VS2010 project?

Hi, I'm working on an ASP.NET MVC 2 / .NET 3.5 project which includes SSRS 2008 reports. After migrating to VS 2010 RC, the new web forms report viewer has been giving so much trouble that I'd like to use the old report viewer from VS 2008 again. Now I'm just wondering what would be the easiest way to do that. The report viewer is emb...

Get unused assemblies in bin

Is there any way or tool to detect all assemblies in BIN which are never used in the project? ...

Browse/Select Assemblies from the GAC or elsewhere

I need to allow users to select an assembly in much the same way that Visual Studio does. Either from the GAC or from anywhere else in the file system. A simple OpenFileDialog will not suffice because navigating to c:\windows\assembly does not allow access to the actual file locations of the assemblies in the GAC. I am not writing a Vi...

Weird error running com-exposed assembly

I am facing the following issue when deploying a com-exposed assembly to my client's. The COM component should be consummed by a vb6 application. Here's how it's done 1) I have one c# project which has a class with a couple of methods exposed to COM 2) The project has references to multiple assemblies 3) I compile the project, genera...

Using different versions of the same assembly in the same folder

I have the following situation Project A - Uses Castle Windsor v2.2 - Uses Project B via WindsorContainer Project B - Uses NHibernate - Uses Castle Windsor v2.1 In the bin folder of Project A I have the dll Castle.DynamicProxy2.dll v2.2 and NHibernate dlls. Now the problem is that NHibernate is dependent on Castle.Dynamic...

Mark assembly App_licenses.dll with AssemblyVersion (FxCop CA1016 rule)

Hello everyone, I'm trying to fulfil FxCop's rules in my web site. Since I use some Infragistics controls I have a licenses.licx file that turns into a "app_licenses.dll" assembly after publication. The problem is that this app_licenses.dll assembly does not comply with rule CA1016 (MarkAssembliesWithAssemblyVersion), and I should add a...

Maven assembly - Error reading assemblies

I have defined a personalized jar-with-dependencies assembly descriptor. However, when I execute it with mvn assembly:assembly, I get : ... [INFO] META-INF/ already added, skipping [INFO] META-INF/MANIFEST.MF already added, skipping [INFO] javax/ already added, skipping [INFO] META-INF/ already added, skipping [INFO] META-INF/MANIFEST.M...

Multiple System.Web.Extensions assembly in same project?

Hi, I'm having trouble moving a website from one server to another. It seems to be a problem loading multiple versions of System.Web.Extensions. The code uses version 3.5 in most places but a third party control appears to be needing version 1.0.6. I didn't think this was possible but it appears to be working in it's current situation. ...

How to detect circular references between assemblies in a .NET solution?

Do you know of an effective way to detect circular references between .Net assemblies? The situation I would like to detect/prevent is such as: A references B B references D D references A ...

Difference between AppDomain.GetAssemblies and BuildManager.GetReferencedAssemblies

Just wanted to know if there is any difference between the two, in the context of a fully trust asp.net mvc 2 application. ...

.NET Reference "Copy Local" True / False Being Set Based on Contents of GAC

We had a very interesting problem with a Win Forms project. It's been resolved. We know what happened, but we want to understand why it happened. This may help other people out in the future who have a similar problem. The WinForms project failed on 2 of our client's PCs. The error was an obscure kernel.dll error. The project ran fine o...

Moving .NET assemblies away from the application base directory?

I have a WinForms application with a bunch of third party references. This makes the output folder quite messy. I'd like to place the compiled / referenced dlls into a common subdirectory in the output folder, bin / lib - whatever - and just have the executables (+ needed configs etc) reside in the output folder. After some searching I ...

c# - can you make a "weak" assembly reference to a strong named assembly

For various reasons i would rather not use strong named (signed) assemblies in my project. however, one of the projects is referenced by a sharepoint web part which means it must be signed. is it possible to have this assembly signed but when I reference it from other projects, to do so using a non-strong reference. this would give me t...

Assembly reference from ASP.NET App_Code directory

I have trouble getting a custom ObjectDataSource for an asp:ListView control to work. I have the class for the DataSource in the App_Code directory of the web application (as required by the asp:ListView control). using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Configuration; using System.Data; ...

InvalidCastException for two Objects of the same type

hi, I have this weird problem that I cannot handle myself. A class in the model of my mvp-project designed as singleton causes an InvalidCastException. The source of error is found in this code line where the deserialised object is assigned to the instance variable of the class: engineObject = (ENGINE)xSerializer.Deserialize(str); It oc...

Deploying .NET COM dll, getting error (0x80070002)

I have a .NET COM assembly I am attempting to deploy to a web server (IIS 6 Win 2003). We have successfully deployed this assembly to our test environment, but the production environment is not working. The assembly is being called from a classic ASP page. Every time that page tries to initialize the assembly with “Set LTMRender = Creat...

.NET assembly in GAC + Config

I have a .NET 3.5 assembly, a DAL, that connects to a database through Linq2SQL. I deploy this assembly in the GAC as it can be used by multiple business layers. The question is: in a dev environment I have a connection string different than the one in the production environment. Before deploying the assembly to the prod GAC I need to r...

Maven: How to create assembly with snapshot artifacts without timestamps file name?

I've a repository containing snapshot artifacts with timestamps. I want to create an assembly, that contains the dependencies. This works fine. But the artifact names contains the timestamp. So i wonder how to remove the timestamp from filename for the assembly only. I've used this dependencySet: <outputFileNameMapping>${artifact.arti...

Splitting assemblies - finding the balance (avoiding overkill)

I'm writing a wide component infrastructure, to be used in my projects. Since not all projects will require every component created, I've been thinking of splitting the component into discrete assemblies, so that every application developed will only be deployed with the required assemblies. I assume that creating an assembly has some s...