> doug chanco wrote: > > Is it possible to just put the uniobjects dll on a system without > > installing it? I am working on a "home" project where I have an > > android app call a web service to get UV data from my linux server. > > > > I have a hosted system running windows server and I am working on >> a c# web service that will receive data and pass it to a subroutine (via > > uniobjects) on my linux box.
> From: Jeff Schasny > The .dll does not need to be installed. Visual Studio will include it in the > installation package for your C# application after you add it to the > project. Errr, that's only if you tell it to. When you reference a DLL it doesn't automatically copy the DLL into your bin path because that can make for huge deployment packages when the target client already has some DLLs. If you know you want to copy the DLL, click on it then look at properties and you'll see the option to copy. Now, sometimes you may not want to do that. Let's say you have UO vX.Y and it works a treat on your system with your configuration against your version of UV or UD. So you do your clients a favor and bundle your UO with your app. But then you get calls that "UO works fine here but your app doesn't work". What's happening there is that they might be using a different version that works for them but your version doesn't work. If you just provide a reference, your app will use their UO and everything will be great. But you often don't know if they have UO or not. For a given app and audience you have a pretty good idea so you can decide whether or not to do that Copy deployment. Another issue is with versioning. While the .NET Framework was designed to allow multiple versions of the same DLL to co-exist in harmony, most .NET developers don't code to make use of that. So let's say you do bundle the UO DLL with your package. Be careful about moving that to a general location or using the GAC because you could be over-writing a DLL that works for your client with your older or newer version. I apologize that I haven't played with the UO / UO.NET DLLs for a while but I had these exact issues with them until we worked out which version work in specific environments. I wrote an applet that detects and identifies the version of UO on a system, and tells you if it can make a good connection. This helped to resolve the issue with "why isn't it working?" or "why is my UO broken after this app was installed?" "which version do you have?" "I don't know I might not even have it installed..." Anyway, the answer isn't quite That cut n dried... BTW, Doug, I think you're using the right approach, going from Android to a middle tier and then doing a proxy to Universe/Linux. Too many people approach this as "how do I connect from Android to UV/Linux?". The answer is that you don't need to and frequently don't want to. Coming back to the original question for a moment, I think Doug might have wanted to know if you need to install the Client Library on a client PC just to get the UO DLL. The answer is no, you don't need that 110MB+ installer just for the one tiny DLL, and the licensing permits the DLL to be deployed with your solution. Regards, Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Nebula R&D sells mv.NET and other Pick/MultiValue products worldwide, and provides related development services http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog Visit http://PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno http://groups.google.com/group/mvdbms _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
