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.net app won't run. When compiling on dest machine (same sources) it does work. Why?

I have a service which needs to be deployed on a clients machine. The destination machine is 64bit. My dev machine is also 64 bit. The app is really simple, listens on a port and does some db things. It targets .net 3.5 When I deploy the Anycpu, the X64 or the X86 version, the thing won't install on the clients machine. I checked depe...

Win7 64/32 bits c# dll doubt

Hello, is it possible to build a c# dll and tlb files in a win7 64 bits computer and make it work in a win7 32bits computer? Thanks in advance :) Edit: I am using a c++ dll that calls the .tlb file generated in my c# COM interop dll proj. ...

ctypes DLL with optional dependencies

Disclaimer: I'm new to windows programming so some of my assumptions may be wrong. Please correct me if so. I am developing a python wrapper for a C API using ctypes. The API ships with both 64 and 32 DLLs/LIBs. I can succesfully load the DLL using ctypes.WinDLL('TheLibName') and call functions etc etc. However some functions were not ...

How do I launch a winforms form from a DLL correctly?

There's another question similar to mine, but I wanted to gather some specifics: I want to create a DLL that is called from unmanaged code. When the unmanaged functions are called in the DLL, I want to collect information and show it in a kind of form. What I'd like to do is, when DllMain() is called, and the reason is DLL_PROCESS_A...

Where can I get the Microft SharePoint assemblies?

Hi, I am trying to workup an automated tool for SharePoint interaction through a Powershell script. Am running into a SharePoint.dll not found issue and upon looking it up(including previous posts in StackOverflow), it seems its available in the server. I do not have access to a Sharepoint installation at the moment. Is there some place...

Calling a non-exported function in a DLL

I have a program which loads DLLs and I need to call one of the non-exported functions it contains. Is there any way I can do this, via searching in a debugger or otherwise? Before anyone asks, yes I have the prototypes and stuff for the functions. ...

Editing AppName.dll.config in Production - changes aren't picked up.

Background: I have an ASP.NET dll which I'm referencing from a classic ASP web application. [Pause for groaning.] I've added the dll to the GAC and registered it with regasm and so forth, per various articles here at SO and elsewhere. It all works: the object is created, a database is called, everything ends well. The problem, thou...

Guidance on using drop-in DLLs

I have been giving the task to rewrite a internal utility in .Net for my work. One of program requirements the new system has is have a DLL that implements a set of interfaces and have the program call the DLL. Now this DLL will be changed out a lot per deployment. My question is what is the best way to do it from a development standpoi...

dumpbin equivalent in Qt

Is there any utility similar to dumpbin(Visual Studio) in Qt that allows me to check the functions that are exposed in a Qt-Creator compiled dll ?? I need to know what methods are exposed in a given dll so that I can load the method dynamically at runtime using QLibrary. Thanks, De Costo ...

Ways to wrap 32-bit .dll so it will work in a 64-bit OS

So, I've been using JPIB to communicate with GPIB devices in my java program. However, I have run into a snag. Newer systems are built on 64 bit OS's. However, the jpib.dll file is written in 32-bit. I can't think of any kind of calls that it would need to make that are truly 64-bit dependent. The real trouble here is that the JPIB ...

Linking to a Large address aware DLL.

Suppose I have a DLL which is built with LARGEADDRESSAWARE linker flag set. Now I have an application dynamically linking to this DLL. Does this make my application LARGEADDRESSAWARE? If not then, does it make sense to have this flag set for any DLL? ...

Generation of .tlb Files in Windows 7 Pro 32-bit

I have a C++ DLL that imports a .tlb file generated in a C# project. The C++ DLL is a wrapper DLL containing functions that call the corresponding C# functions. When I call the C++ functions on the computer that I built the projects, all works well. But when I copy the DLL's and generated tlb's to another computer with the same exact ve...

How to debug ctypes call of c++ dll?

Hello, in my python project I call a c++ dll using ctypes library. That c++ dll consists on a wrapper dll that calls methods of a c# com interop dll. Sometimes I have a COM exception. I like to see what it corresponds exactlly but I don't know how to do it? How can I attach the c++ debugger to this situation? Thanks in advance ...

Using .dll methods to load data from file in C# code

I want to use in C# these methods: * int LibRaw::open_datastream(LibRaw_abstract_datastream *stream) * int LibRaw::open_file(const char *rawfile) * int LibRaw::open_buffer(void *buffer, size_t bufsize) * int LibRaw::unpack(void) * int LibRaw::unpack_thumb(void) that are stored in a libraw.dll. These functions...

Advice on whether to use native C++ DLL or not: PINVOKE & Marshaling ?

What's the best way to do this....? I have some Native C++ code that uses a lot of Win32 calls together with byte buffers (allocated using HeapAlloc). I'd like to extend the code and make a C# GUI...and maybe later use a basic Win32 GUI (for use where there is no .Net and limited MFC support). (A) I could just re-write the code in C# a...

C#: How to programmatically compile a DLL with certain XML content in the resources of the DLL?

More specifically, I'm wanting to compile the XML required by Microsoft to create a GDF.dll file, in order to add a game to the Games Explorer in Windows 7. I found this KB article that explains how to programmatically compile source into a DLL or EXE, but I'm unsure how to properly compile a DLL that contains XML. ...

Current Time Not working in WPF DLL

HI, I making one DLL in WPF,C# and im using it in VC++.In that DLL, ihave one textblock to display current time,But when i run the WPF application as WIndows application it shows current time correctly and also updated with new timings.But when i use it as Dll in VC++ applcation,the current time is not get updating.It shows the time when...

Working with .tlb files

Hello, I've created a c# com interop dll project that generates both .dll and .tlb files. When I use them on the computer that I built everythig, all works fine. But when I pass it to another computer (with the same windows installed), it doesn't work. I allready made the: Regasm.exe SoundLogDLL.dll /tlb:SoundLogDLL.tlb command, but s...

How to remove one folder from C:\Windows\winsxs?

Hello, I've installed: Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86) and got the following folders: x86_microsoft.vc90.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.21022.8_none_bcb86ed6ac711f91 x86_microsoft.vc90.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.4926_none_508ed732bcbc0e5a I allready uninstalled the redistribute package but they continue overt...

helink dll to executable

How can I link the .dll file to an executable? I do not have the source for the dll nor executable. The two files operate on a 64-bit system. When the executable is ported from another system, I get "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150002). Click OK to Terminate the program. Here's a list of the files \l2server\L...