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Resolved .exe.config when running from PB IDE

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  1. Aron Cox
    Aron Cox
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  3. Sunday, 3 March 2019 16:14 PM UTC

I am calling a .NET component given to me by our .NET Team from PowerBuilder 2017 R2. They tell me I need an .exe.config file for it to work. If I build my application into an executable, and add an .exe.config file, it does indeed work.

However, what do I do if I am running the application from the PowerBuilder IDE? I tried adding a PBVM170.exe.config but it didn't seem to work? Is that the right thing to do and I just need to try harder, or is there something I am missing?

Thank you for any help :)

 

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Marco Meoni
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  1. Sunday, 3 March 2019 21:01 PM UTC
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Hi Aron,

I think what you want to achieve is so called side-by-side assembly.

In that case you need a .exe.manifest named as your compiled application, or PBVM170.exe.manifest if you are running from PB IDE. In that manifest you can describe the side-by-side .NET assembly that your app should bind to at run time.

Best,

.m

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Aron Cox
  1. Aron Cox
  2. Friday, 15 March 2019 10:36 AM UTC
Thanks Marco, that is something I have also wanted to do in the past, and is sorta related to my question, but it's not a manifest file I am looking at but a config file.
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Roland Smith
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  1. Monday, 4 March 2019 00:44 AM UTC
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The IDE isn't called PBVM170.exe, it is PB170.exe.

Try naming it pb170.exe.config and put it in the same folder as pb170.exe.

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Aron Cox
  1. Aron Cox
  2. Friday, 15 March 2019 10:35 AM UTC
Sorry, yes my mistake when typing this message, duh. I have it as PBVM170.EXE.config but it seems like it still isn't working. I will do some more experimenting once everyone involved has stopped being sick with this super-cold that seems to have been going round the UK for ages!
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Marco Meoni
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  1. Monday, 4 March 2019 08:55 AM UTC
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thanks Roland,
that's was obviously a copy/paste typo from initial message :-)

However, in one of my previous projects, I used .exe.manifest following MS specs for side-by-sed assembly (not .exe.config, maybe it is the same). Here it is with its bunch of loaded assembly, hope it helps.

When an exe file is started the side-by-side logic in Windows looks for a file named [programname].exe.manifest. The manifest should contain names for assembly/dll files that are side-by-side and should be found based on file location instead of looking in the registry. The default location for a assembly/dll file is the same directory as the exe-file.




































Best,

.m

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