I'm combing through a massive program for work that was worked on previously by 4-5 other programmers and ironing out the errors. I've come across an error involving the following line of code at the beginning of the file:
using WebSupergoo.ABCpdf8;
it's giving the following error: "The type or namespace name 'WebSupergoo' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)"
I know this is due to a reference I haven't included, and I found the website that has the files for it. But I can't figure out how to bring in the reference. I created a reference using the .dll file and then I included the reference, but I'm still getting the error. I don't have permission to post the program online, but I can give more details if necessary.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. If you need more information, feel free to ask.
Thanks!
Check if .NET Target framework version of your project is not lower than the framework used for building ABCpdf.dll.
This probably won't be too helpful at this point. But I struggled with this as well from an inherited project after a Windows Update broke a very old implementation of ABCPDF within an ASP.NET web application. I am not saying you should repeat these steps, but I am putting all these steps in here in case it helps someone else identify what they might need to do. Also, I was on ABCPDF10, but I don't see why this wouldn't work for any version.
I deleted all the ABCPDF files out of the project and bin/ manually including the ABCPDF.dlls, the ABCGecko.exe, the XUL Directory, and the PrintHooks.dlls.
I removed all the references to all those files in the proejct.csproj file
I removed all the Packages out of the ../packages for ABCPDF and ABCPDF.Gekco
I then installed 64-bit ABCPDF10, and then installed 32-bit ABCPDF10 via the MSI for each.
I then copied the files from their respective C:/Program Files directories into the bin/ of my project manually per ABCPDFs instructions. This didn't work for me because when I went to build in VS2015 it couldn't see the .DLL for some reason.
I then uninstalled it by deleting the files out of my project bin/ manually and then using Add/Remove Apps in Server2012R2.
I then used Nuget to download ABCPDF and that worked and it could build. But I still needed ABCPDF.Gekco
I then used Nuget to try and install ABCPDF.Gecko. This downloaded it, but it didn't install it fully. I manually copied over the missing .dlls and .exe into the bin/ directory and Built the project.
But at this point I got an error that it couldn't find the x64.dll even though it was in the bin/
What worked for me here is I left the Project and bin/ directory alone and I then used the .MSI installer and re-installed only the x64 version to the C:/ like any other program. I didn't have to copy any files to the bin/. I just re-built the project and boom! That worked.
It feels to me like a registry key/path issue. But I have no idea if that is right.
Hopefully that helps someone else.
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Greetings people who are smarter than I.
After publishing a project which utilises SQLite, when the part of the program runs that accesses the DB commands, I get this error.
Unable to load DLL 'SQLite.Interop.dll': The specified module could
not be found
Now I have spent hours, going through the many similar threads, trying all the suggestions to see if I can fix this, however as of yet I have had no luck.
I have done the following.
Ensured the SQLite.Core is included on the main project and all sub project areas.
Ensured the .dll is available in the debug bin.
Ensured dependencies are set correctly.
Publish specifically to x64 platform.
Publish specifically to x86 platform.
Disabled "Prefer 32-bit".
Copied some specific references to csproj.
All to no avail. If anyone has any experience with this who might be able to suggest something new that I haven't tried in an attempt to solve this I would be most grateful.
So after much research i finally found the solution.
It seems there are a great many potential causes for this error, however this resolved the issue for me in this instance.
Revert everything back to how it was, ensure System.Data.SQLite.Core is referenced in your assemblies.
Close VS / solution and open the csproj file in the repo. Copy the following into the file.
<PropertyGroup>
<ContentSQLiteInteropFiles>true</ContentSQLiteInteropFiles>
<CopySQLiteInteropFiles>false</CopySQLiteInteropFiles>
<CleanSQLiteInteropFiles>false</CleanSQLiteInteropFiles>
<CollectSQLiteInteropFiles>false</CollectSQLiteInteropFiles>
</PropertyGroup>
Save the file, (probably would create a copy of it beforehand to ensure you can replace it if it doesnt work for you).
Ensure that interop.dll is not anywhere in your repo except bin/debug/x86 and x64.
Then proceed to test your project, then publish it.
Reason:
Because the Interop is included in the nuget installation, but not copied down, this bit of code ensures that its copied through during the publishing.
Thank you internet.
I am working on a C# program that utilizes EntityFramework, I've cloned the program from git repo, but now it is having that dreadful Metadata file 'EntityFramework.dll' could not be found error. I have searched and tried countless suggestions for this kind of problem, but none worked. I've already checked that the reference to EntityFramework.dll in the .csproj files are correct and it is definitely there under the packages\EntityFramework.6.2.0\lib\net45\ folder. So I am not sure what else to try.
Ok, I've resolved this problem. Here is what happened. Apparently, when cloning into local directory, one of the folder on the path has a space in its name (like My DSS), and this nuget issue seems to indicate the inability of nuget to find package with space in path. So, once I changed that folder's name to MyDSS, it compiled successfully.
please have a look on the bin folder ,sometimes the dlls do not exist there .
This typically happens when teams check in files that should not be checked in (such as the .suo file) or have "optimized" their builds to exclude rarely changed projects. (unticking projects in the configuration manager.)
Another common cause for missing references is when devs reference a dependency from a /bin folder instead of the packages folder, but it sounds like you've confirmed that isn't the case.
Other questions such as Metadata file '.dll' could not be found list a number of things to check, so your problem will surely be one of these. Try building each project individually, working from projects that have no project dependencies upwards to the main application project(s). Ensure they're running the same .Net versions, check the solution NuGet packages for dependencies with "multiple versions" and consolidate these so that the solution is using a single version of each dependency. (generally good for cleaning up) Also look at .config files for version re-directs that sometimes get zombified in source control.
In Visual Studio, on top, click on Build -> Configuration Manager. Make sure that the build checkbox next to your project is checked. In case it already is, uncheck it and then make it checked again. Clean your Solution and Build it again after this.
I'm coming to you for help for a problem I have.
I posted the problem in the CLI of dotnet but it's been 10 days+ as of this moment of writing and I have no answer.
I have a project with some dependencies on .NET 4.5 and everything worked properly in RC1 and RC2. Now trying to move to RTM (1.0), I have an error that the project can't be made runnable because the runner can't find a specific DLL. The project compiles fine. Doing dotnet run fails
It looks for the DLL in a library that my app (site) uses, specifically XXX.v15.4, version=15.4.0.0, culture=neutral, publickeytoken=b881323kd82k.dll but it does not exist. However, XXX.v15.4.dll exists fine.
Copying XXX.v15.4.dll into XXX.v15.4, version=15.4.0.0, culture=neutral, publickeytoken=b881323kd82k.dll makes the project run.
The DLL that it's trying to load is a third party library used in a library that the app (site) uses.
Any idea of how I could make the project runnable?
Thank you!
I faced the same problem, and thought that problem lied in project.fragment.lock.json or in project.json, but in my case the problem was with incorrect project.lock.json files.
It seems like after addition of some new Nuget packages these files need to be recreated.
When i deleted these files, packages have been restored correctly, and the solution successfully built.
Hope it could help someone.
I am having this same issue and it seems like what is happening is some of the dll's are set to read-only post build. SO the next time you build they can not be built.
What I have done to solve the issue is removed all read-only settings from the root folder of my solution.
So for example, if this is your folder structure in windows:
C:\Users**yourname**\Documents\visual studio 2015\Projects\ProjectName
Right-click ProjectName and remove read-only settings recursively.
In my case this has solved the issue and I hope it helps you
Me and my team just started using GitHub for our development.
Our project is written within Visual Studio (C#).
In our project files we have external references of .dll files that are saved in specific folder for each user for example (c:\users\$user\dlls\data.dll).
When one user is commiting it's changes - it's also including the .csproj files who contain the links for those .dlls but when another using is pulling from the tree the .csproj contains links from the other user's .dll file and he have to change manually the references in order for it to work.
We tried solving it by putting the .csproj files into .gtignore - though that back fired once our project development expended and each branch has different files.
During the writing of this post I thought of another solution - removing the .csproj from the .gtignore and moving all the external .dlls into folder with an agreed file path such as (c:\dlls) and that might solve our problem.
My question is this:
Is there another solution for our issue?
I haven't tested my suggested my solution I will give it a try next version - What do you think of it? Is that the way to go?
Thanks ahead for your replies,
H.
Why aren't you "sharing" those external DLLs in a folder in your project? What I do is add a folder named "External" in my solution which contains these DLLs (and PDBs and XMLs etc) and make sure it is also checked in. That way whenever someone adds a DLL, all other developers simply need to get the latest files from Git and it is on their machines.
Of course, only do this for DLLs that aren't available from NuGet.
It looks like you need a dependency manager such as NuGet or an alternative one.
I have been working on an ASP.NET project for months now without issue. Recently my computer crashed mid compile and now when I load and run the project I get 'Could not load file or assembly 'Ionic.Zip' or one of its dependencies.'
Thinking it was an issue with that particular DLL, I removed it as a test only to have the project say it could not load another referenced DLL, etc etc, until I had no references left...
Any ideas?
If nothing in the code has changed. "Build->Rebuild Solution" should do the trick (implicitly cleans and builds).
If this does not work, do "Build->Clean solution" and go delete all generated build folders (default bin and obj folders). And then try build and run.
And if it still does not work, the code has changed and dependencies are really missing.
Using NuGet and packages are missing perhaps?
I tried everything but NuGet, I didn't use it to get any of the references before.
In the end I had to check in all my changes to TFS, delete the project from my workspace and computer, and then reload it from TFS. Seems to have worked. Something must have been damaged in the project file.