C# WF application missing components from AdvancedHMI

[stephen127]

I am using Visual Studio Community 2013 to develop a c# project that has to save a picture from a camera, do some processing, and pass the data to the PLC. I added a new C# WF project into the solution. I was able to run it using the debug mode with no problems. I am getting the error "Missing componets from advancedHMI ..\bin\Release" when I ran the .exe file directly or copy the solution to another PC and ran from there. Any help?

[Archie]

I am using Visual Studio Community 2013 to develop a c# project that has to save a picture from a camera, do some processing, and pass the data to the PLC. I added a new C# WF project into the solution. I was able to run it using the debug mode with no problems. I am getting the error "Missing componets from advancedHMI ..\bin\Release" when I ran the .exe file directly or copy the solution to another PC and ran from there. Any help?

Have you tried to create a simple project with the default VB project to see if it work? Compare the references in your C# project against the references in the default VB project.

[stephen127]

I haven't tried to use VB to write the interface. The reason is all my camera and imaging processing code was written in C#. If I have to switch to VB, it is gonna be a lot of rework. I thought AdvancedHMI could work with C# after reading some threads in the forum. I must have missed something. Any idea?

[Archie]

It does work with C#, but by doing a simple test with the default VB project will either narrow down or eliminate a problem in your C# project setup.

[stephen127]

I just tested one with a simple VB project. I had this same missing component error message.

[rbelknap]

Just an outside guess here, but it sounds like the advanced HMI components weren't compiled in Release mode.

Make sure the entire Solution is in Release mode and then right-click on the solution and Build.

[Archie]

What all files do you have in the same directory with the executable ?

[stephen127]

I attached a screenshot here.

[Archie]

It looks like you are missing AdvancedHMIControls.dll

[stephen127]

You are totally correct. For some reasons, I always thought I have included all the .dll files in the reference. Thank you so much for the help.