Assembly hell - FileNotFoundException was unhandled

[coding...@gmail.com]

My topshelf webapi project is working fine after I click F5 in Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition running on my LOCAL Windows 8 laptop. 

I conduct various tests by sending it an HTTP REQUESTs from POSTMAN. I get RESPONSEs just fine.

 My problem occurs when I take the following steps. 

I copy the executable in my \bin dir to c:\temp. 

From an ms-dos command promt (cursor at c:\temp=>=>=>) I run the following command;

MyExecutable.exe install

I get the following error: 

System.IO.FileNotFoundException was unhandled

Message: An unhandled exception of type 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException' occurred in Unknown Module.

Additional information: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Practices.Unity, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' 

or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Please note. When I run the above dos command from the \bin directory, the exe DOES install itself as a Windows service SUCCESSFULLY into my laptop(I verify by going into Windows Services and it exists there). So, my point is that, I intend to deploy this in a typicall promotion, as to production from dev env. I assume it will produce the same error above; when I attemp to DEPLOY this to prod Windows server. 

[Dru Sellers]

so, my first question is what is your Copy command look like?

Is the Unity dll in the C:\temp dir?

-d

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[coding...@gmail.com]

Hi Dru,

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| my first question is what is your Copy command look like? c:\Users\UserOne\Documents\SolutionBeta\bin\Debug> Copy myexe.exe c:\Temp

| Is the Unity dll in the C:\temp dir? NO

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I surmise what you are indicating is that (.exe.config file) & all the assemblies my executable depends upon Should Also be located(copied) in/to c:\Temp

[Chris Patterson]

That's how the .NET assembly binder works. Current directory, and then based on the binding rules. That's not something we control, that's how .NET works.

[Dru Sellers]

Yup, you got it. You have to copy the entire bin dir. :)

-d