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jdewitte
jdewitte

Reputation: 131

WebSuperGoo.ABCpdf8

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!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2431

Answers (2)

Andy Borgmann
Andy Borgmann

Reputation: 73

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.

  1. 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.
  2. I removed all the references to all those files in the proejct.csproj file
  3. I removed all the Packages out of the ../packages for ABCPDF and ABCPDF.Gekco
  4. I then installed 64-bit ABCPDF10, and then installed 32-bit ABCPDF10 via the MSI for each.
  5. 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.
  6. I then uninstalled it by deleting the files out of my project bin/ manually and then using Add/Remove Apps in Server2012R2.
  7. I then used Nuget to download ABCPDF and that worked and it could build. But I still needed ABCPDF.Gekco
  8. 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.
  9. But at this point I got an error that it couldn't find the x64.dll even though it was in the bin/
  10. 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.

Upvotes: 0

lajavko
lajavko

Reputation: 21

Check if .NET Target framework version of your project is not lower than the framework used for building ABCpdf.dll.

Upvotes: 2

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