How do you Re-compile DLL's ?

Need help

If you have visual studio, click on the Build button on the toolbar.  If you don't have VS, you can use the compiler utilities csc.exe or vbc.exe to do the compilation.  They can be run from the command line or the code can be put into a .bat file and run from that.  If you need an example, let me know.

jake

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I using DreamWeaverMx to create ASP.NET apps .
Can you saw me a example please.

Thanks

OK.  Note that there are different ways to set up the compile instructions, and I have seen examples that do things a little differently, but I'll explain the commands so that you know why I set things up this way.

First, I created an ASCII text file with a .bat file extension.  It might be named something like CompileAll.bat

Then, in this particular application, I have added the following text to the file:

set indir1=C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\JBSurvey\source\JBSurvey.cs
set indir2=C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\JBSurvey\source\Login.cs
set outdir=C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\JBSurvey\bin\JBSurvey.dll
set assemblies=System.dll,System.Data.dll,System.Web.dll,System.Xml.dll

C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\csc /target:library /out:%outdir% %indir1% %indir2% /r:%assemblies% /optimize

pause

When I want to compile the application, I simply find the .bat file in Windows Explorer and double-click on the file icon in the same manner that I might run an executable file.

In the first two lines I am defining the list of input files that I want to be included in the compilation.  In the third line, I am setting the output directory and filename for the compiled dll file.  In the fourth line, I am defining the .NET assemblies that are required for the application, given the namespaces that I use within the application.  These assemblies are not the same as namespaces, and one assembly will contain multiple namespaces.

The line of code that actually calls the compiler is the fifth line.  In this case, I am calling the c-sharp compiler.  You will use vbc if you want to call the vb compiler.  Note also that I am using fully qualified directory paths.  If you have .NET version 2.0 installed, there will be a set of compilers in that directory also, which you should use instead of the one shown above for compiling v2.0 apps.  The /target switch tells the compiler that I want a dll instead of an exe.  The /out switch sets the output and input directories.  The /r switch sets the assemblies.  The /optimize switch adds a code optimization check.  Note the pause command in the last line of code.  You must include that so that the command window will stay open, allowing you to determine whether the compilation has been successful, or to read any error messages provided by the compiler.  If you don't have the pause command, the command window will close immediately after the code has run, regardless of whether it actually compiled anything.

best, jake