dll-hell

DLL Caching issues on IIS/Sharepoint GAC

We have a handful of sharepoint sites that uses various UserControls we have developed for custom stuff including authentication and authorization. On one of these sites when a new user is created by an admin it creates a password of this minumum length number of characters, saves the user info and sends an email to the users email addre...

Comparing DLL sets from the same app on two different machines

Is there a good way to compare the DLLs loaded between two machines running the same app. (And to replicate the process between N other machines, two at a time?) Background: I am trying to track down a configuration/setup issue. It's the age-old, DLL-hell-type problem where an app will run on one machine but not on another. I have elim...

OpenGL application not picking up 64bit Mesa OpenGL32.dll

I'm trying to get a 64bit OpenGL application running with MESA compiled in 64 bit. When compiling both in 32bit it works perfect putting the opengl32.dll and talloc.dll in the same directory as the executable, however, in 64bit the mesa opengl32.dll driver seems to simply pass on the my hardware driver. If I change the opengl32.dll to a...

OpenCV Visual Studio 2010 - RC6034 Error (DLL Hell?)

[ Add HTTP:// to the beginning of picture links to make them work for you. ] [ All Steps here were done with both Release and Debug versions. The pictures shown only display debug-related information. ] OpenCV 2.1.0 does not work properly with Visual Studio 2010 on my computer when it begins to load _Video files with the opencv_ffmpeg D...

Writing DLL for C# and C++ Applications

I need to write a couple DLLs that will both be accessed from a C# application and a C++ application. Initially, I was thinking that I could save time/effort by writing the DLLs in C# and linking to them from the C# and C++ applications. Is this approach wise, or should the DLLs be written using C++? ...

Linking Functions In a C# DLL from a C# Application

What is the proper way to link to functions in a C# DLL from a C# application? This is how my DLL looks: namespace WMIQuery_Namespace { public class WMIQuery { public static string GetPortName() { /* Does some stuff returning valid port name. */ return string.Empty; } pu...