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Picine Karppehd - 10 Oct 2004 18:43 GMT

Can any of you guru's help me with the following:

When I run a WinForms exe on another machine I get the following error:
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: File or assembly name
Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatibility, or one of its dependencies, was not
found.

A search of MSDN for this error does not return any useful info

The C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v1.1.4322 folder did not contain
Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatibility.dll nor
Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatibility.Data.dll so I copied them in. Got the
same error.

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pretty good with VB6,
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Sijin Joseph - 11 Oct 2004 05:34 GMT

This KB might help
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=834610

Sijin Joseph
http://www.indiangeek.net
http://weblogs.asp.net/sjoseph

> Can any of you guru's help me with the following:
>
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> Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatibility.Data.dll so I copied them in. Got the
> same error.

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Picine Karppehd - 11 Oct 2004 13:39 GMT

Thank you, Sijin, for your quick reply.
I have seen the info this kb incident and tried the techniques recommended
therein. It did not help. I get the same error. I guess the problem is
that:
1. The compatibility DLL's are not installed when the Framework 1.1 is
installed. They are installed on development computers when Visual Studio
2003 is installed.
2. I cannot find any instruction on how to install them when a WinForm exe
is deployed.
3. The XCOPY method of copying the DLL's to the target computer will not fix
the problem, as I have done that.
4. I tried using RegSvr32 to register them but RegSver32 gives an error.

I don't know what else to do other than go thru my code and remove all
references to anything in the compatibilty namespace.

> This KB might help
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=834610
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> > Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatibility.Data.dll so I copied them in. Got the
> > same error.

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Sijin Joseph - 13 Oct 2004 05:00 GMT

Hi,

Have you tried installing the DLL's in the GAC using gacutil.exe?

Sijin Joseph
http://www.indiangeek.net
http://weblogs.asp.net/sjoseph

> Thank you, Sijin, for your quick reply.
> I have seen the info this kb incident and tried the techniques recommended
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>>>Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatibility.Data.dll so I copied them in. Got the
>>>same error.

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