I created a software program ages ago, and have just opened up the project and when I try to compile, it throws up two errors in reference to VBIDE:
Warning 2 Cannot find wrapper assembly for type library "VBIDE". Verify that (1) the COM component is registered correctly and (2) your target platform is the same as the bitness of the COM component. For example, if the COM component is 32-bit, your target platform must not be 64-bit. SonicPhoto
...and:
Warning 3 The referenced component 'VBIDE' could not be found.
The thing is - I don't ever remember adding this reference as my project is a sound orientated program and VBIDE is "Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Extensibility 5.3" which has nothing to do with C#, let alone my program. If I remove the reference, the solution compiles and seems to run perfectly. I presume I am completely safe to remove it if it runs?
Perhaps I added this reference by mistake? Just to also say, I have older archived of my software, and the reference is there too, and none of the those compile either, when I know for a fact that at least one of the older copies of my software would have compiled. I also have a copy on another computer, and the reference is there too, but the reference isn't broken, so the project compiles and runs.
On Solution Explorer,
Click Show all Files,
Click References,
Select VBIDE,
RightClick it and Remove it.
As WelcomeOverflow suggested this solved it for me:
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications -> Menu -> Extras -> Links
-> [x] Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Extensibility 5.3
I know this is necroing a post but I had the same issue and solved it.
I have visual studio code I am trying to compile/build from source and did not have this VBIDE reference. I also needed RSlinx installed for an OPCautomation reference (its an industrial driver program for Rockwell automation) and Microsoft office since the program is creating an excel file.
Any who, long story short after I installed office 365 visual studio suddenly had the Vbide reference which it could not locate before. Deleting the Vbide reference also allowed it to compile so I would back up the program and try that first.
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Ran into the same problem.
Installed Office 2007 and the problem was fixed
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I wrote a C# .dll in Visual Studio which I want to call from excel VBA. (I used this tutorial)
On my Development PC where I set the settings in the Project properties for "Make COM-Visible", "Register for COM interop" and "sign the assembly" it all works fine. The dll is getting registered automatically by Visual Studio and I can select and set it in Excel in VBA Window > Tools > References
The use case now is that I can use that dll file on another PC which does not have Visual Studio installed.
As told in the tutorial and all around the internet the way to go is by using the command line tool RegAsm.exe, what I did (if its useful: I used the one in the following folder: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\RegAsm.exe)
The command to register the dll is:
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\RegAsm.exe D:\Debug\DotNetLibrary.dll /tlb /codebase.
This runs without an error and the command line tells me that the types have been registered correctly and the tlb has been exported and registered.
It seems like everything worked well and there is also an entry in the registry (Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib) which references my dll but the library doesn't show up in the Reference window in VBA like it did on the other PC.
If I select the tlb, which has been generated by the RegAsm manually, by clicking browse in the Reference Window, it gets added to the list. But if I then start the code I get the Error that the ActiveX component can't create an object.
I'm inspecting this issue since several days now, so it would be very nice if some one could assist me with it.
As #HansPassant mentioned in an comment under my question the simple solution was to use the 32-bit version of regasm (located in C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319)
This needs to be done because Microsoft Office products are still 32-bit.
I have two brand new C# .NET Standard libraries. They each have a project reference to an older .NET 3.5 Framework library. Only one of the two have a yellow icon on the reference.
Everything builds and runs fine but the triangle still exists, why?
I would hope they have a better way to report reference issues
than an unlabeled yellow icon.
Not sure if it's your real question. But you can check the Error List window to get details about why yellow icon displays on the References.
Everything builds and runs fine.
For some scenario, the build in VS can succeed although some build warnings occurs. And it will only fail when some build errors exist.
I add reference to ForTest.dll in my project, this assembly is missing or not compatible with current project, then it displays yellow icon in References. Now since in my project, it doesn't call functions from the ForTest.dll, so it won't exactly affect my build process. Then the project builds successfully and runs fine.
I have tried looking at the build log, in detailed mode, for an error
message, but cannot find anything obvious.
When building a solution with several projects, and set the log in Detailed mode, it's easier to get lost in the hundreds of build logs. Since the yellow icon only displays for one project, you can right-click the project=>rebuild to build the project, it makes the message in build log more clear.
Or just use the Error List window as I suggest above to check the warnings and errors instead of hundreds of logs during Trouble-shooting.
In addition: If you can't find any info in Error List window, then maybe the reason why the yellow icon occurs is because VS didn't load the project well. Please try right-click the project=> unload and reload the project in solution explorer. If it persists,close all vs instance and delete the .vs folder in solution directory, and restart vs.
According to Microsoft, these yellow warning signs get added for every new reference and then removed once the reference is successfully added (=assumed guilty until proven innocent). If some yellow warning remains in the solution explorer, VS knows only that that reference is missing, but doesn't know why and can therefore not display a warning message in the Error window.
Not being able to find out why there is a warning sign is very annoying. The problem was reported, but Microsoft's standard response is: "This problem seems not to be requested enough to be resolved, but if you like, you can contribute your own solution."
So if you read so far, can you please go to developercommunity.visualstudio.com: tell me what's wrong with the reference 2 and vote this issue up, telling MS they should indeed fix this.
After spending hours trying to solve a none existing error, I gave up and closed VS. When I started it again, the problem was gone.
These errors also occur when adding a NuGet package that is not compatible with the current .NET (such as .NET Framework app under .NET Standard or .NET Core, or a .NET version such as referencing .NET Framework 4.8 library from an older .NET version).
Check that the package dependency is the same as the project you're working with.
It could also mean that the third party assembly you have on your machine is not registered in the gac and hence not being found. For older projects mostly if I have to hand copy over the dlls, I will then register them with this powershell script in the directory they reside in:
gci *.dll | % { gacutil /i $_.Name }
I have followed the posts on this, but i am still not getting a few steps. I am new to C#, and that is probably the issue. I would love a little help (I have been banging on this all day).
I can open the FreeImage.NET solution (Win7 64 bit machine btw) in Visual Studio. This post says i need to Build it to get the C# dll. When i build it, i get hundreds of errors "type or namespace 'Name' could not be found".
Does it need the C++ DDL added first? I dragged and dropped it onto the solution, but still the errors.
Am i doing something simple and wrong?
Specifically what i am trying to do is add FreeImage to project in C# Visual Studio Express 2012.
Thanks,
Dan
After downloading the version of FreeImage.NET , I opened the following VS2005 Solution File in VS2012.(Thats the only one I have)
FreeImage3154\FreeImage\Wrapper\FreeImage.NET\cs\FreeImage.NET.2005.sln
After upgrading the project and building it for the first time, I saw around 491 errors. If you open the references of the UnitTest.2005 project, you will see that the nunit.framework assembly is missing. If you have nuget installed , in VS2012 you can
Right Click references > Manage NuGet Packages > Search for NUnit and install it.
In the image below we see that the nunit.framework assembly is correctly linked.
After doing this there were only 50 errors remaining and they were all because the Xml Documentation file checks were enabled. You can disable this check as shown below in the Library.2005 project.
Build again, and it should succeed.
NOTE: The FreeImage website provides only a 32-bit version of the DLL, thus to use this DLL you will have to ensure that you set your project version to 32-bit. To obtain a 64-bit version of the FreeImage DLL you will have o download their source code project and manually do a 64-bit build as show in this blog.
I am attempting to distribute a .NET Wizard form for Visual Studio, using a non-msi installer. For the sake of simplicity, let's focus on Visual Studio 2008.
So, as part of the post-build process of the assembly, I call:
regasm /regfile C:\path\to\my\assembly.dll
Then, pack the generated regfile and use regedit to merge this with the end users registry. I see that the assembly name and CLSID are generated properly and placed into HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID, respectively.
However, on the Visual Studio side of things, after the installation is complete, I get an error. To elaborate, the Wizard is seen in the "Add New Items", via the vsdir file. This points to the vsz file, where Visual Studio sees the appropriate COM class. I can tell that it sees this class in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT because the error message actually displays the correct CLSID:
Class not registered.
Looking for object with CLSID: {xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}
I am not entirely sure what the problem is. I know that the old InstallShield project had a simple check box for installing assemblies as COM interop. Unfortunately, this is not available to me. Perhaps that isn't really the problem and I am missing something from the Visual Studio 2008 installation side of things.
Any ideas or debugging help would be greatly appreciated. First and foremost, I want to verify that the assembly is correctly installed for COM interop. I have never used COM before, so it is all greek to me. :)
Edit: I should mention that this same assembly was build and distributed just fine with an "old" InstallShield project. Therefore, I know the problem lies within my own understanding/implementation of adding a .NET COM Wizard to the Visual Studio Add Items dialog.
Does your class (or assembly) have the Com visible attribute set to true?
Before I change to ExcelDNA,
My addin is COM AddIn, developed in C#, VS 2008 for Excel 2003+
my installer is created via Setup project in VS 2008
during install, install.xls is called in Custom Action, which calls an xla to register my UDF
Now, I switch to ExcelDNA,
My addin is changed to
public class Connect : ExcelRibbon, IExcelAddIn
I still use Setup project in VS, keep the same upgradeCode,
during install, install.xls is called in custom action, which calls an xll to register my UDF
This works fine for a new install i.e. there is no older version
However, if there is an older version of myAddin (COM Addin)
if I install new version of my Addin (excelDna version) on top of it,
I expect the new version will overwrite the older verison.
However, an error comes up saying "A problem occurred while an addin was intialized (InitializedFailed)..."
Maybe many people here have similar experience before.
How did you solve the issue? thanks a lot !!
This is related to signed projects.
I used to have two projects(dll) signed and referenced by third dll. Later I remove signing.
and reference unsigned dlls in the third dll.
When I upgrade from previous version, for some reason the two dll are not updated.
So the third one looks for unsigned version of dlls while only find signed version in installation folder. So I got the error of initializedfailed.
I signed both dll again and reference them in my third dll, then upgrade works fine.
more info http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tomholl/archive/2007/04/19/avoiding-configuration-pitfalls-with-incompatible-copies-of-enterprise-library.aspx
However one issue is, why those two dlls are updated during new install and are NOT during upgrade install?
Is this a bug in windows installer or something I miss? thanks