Referencing DLL in ASP.NET

[Srinivas Kotipalli]

Hi,

I am tring to create a ASP.NET web form using notepad. in the codebehind
file I have imported CrystalDecisions.CrystalREports.Engine.
This gives me compilation error, saying that engine does not belong to
namespace.

I read somewhere I need to reference this assembly. When I am using a
Notepad, how do I reference a dll? where do I add it? Do I need to create a
file with vbproj extention and add these references?

Please help?

thanks in advance
- Srini.

 

[Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]]

There are switches in the vbc compiler that you use to reference assemblies.
Is that what you meant?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...y/en-us/vblr7/html/vaconvbcompileroptions.asp

Compile File.vb and create File.exe

vbc /reference:Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll File.vb

 

[Srinivas Kotipalli]

Thanks for the response Ken, But No!

this is a asp.net application. I have a aspx web page with codebehind file
as SRC, hence not pre-compiled.
when I first try to access the page it is trying to compile the codebehind
file and giving compile errors.

Somewhere I read that I need to reference the assembly. How do I do this?
Should my page have
<@ Assembly="Crystaldecisions.CrystalReports.Engine" > or something like
this? Is that the way to refernece a dll when you are developing your
ASP.NET application using a notepad??

thank you,
Srini.

 

[Rick Strahl [MVP]]

YEs that's the right way to reference the assemly, but you may also need to
reference the namespace...

You might want to look into using WebMatrix which is free and makes this a
bit easier than using notepad and manually compiling.

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