SQLDMO in C# not working

Nick Gilbert

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Aug 16, 2002, 11:33:12 AM8/16/02

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Hi,

I'm trying to use SQLDMO from a C# console app and I was told to do the
following to create a wrapper for the COM lib:

> tlbimp sqldmo.dll /out:sqldmonet.dll

I ran this, and sure enough it generated a 946K DLL file.

If I then try and compile it into my console app:

> csc /target:exe /debug:full /reference:sqldmonet.dll vfupdate.cs

I get the following error:

vfupdate.cs(20,7): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'SQLDMO' could
not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

...which comes from the line "using SQLDMO;"

Why can't it see the SQLDMO namespace? If I add /namespace:SQLDMO to the
tlbimp command, it then compiles OK, but I can't actually create the
required __SQLServer object.

Any ideas?

Nick...
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Gert E.R. Drapers

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Aug 16, 2002, 9:12:18 PM8/16/02

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By the fact that you used /out:sqldmonet.dll the namespace became sqldmonet.
Add /namespace:SQLDMO to the command like

tlbimp sqldmo.dll /out:sqldmonet.dll /namespace:SQLDMO

and it should work as you expect. SQLDMO is the default namespace when you
add a COM reference using Visual Studio, because it uses the same name for
the runtime callable wrapper as the originating DLL, hence SQLDMO

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Nick Gilbert

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Aug 19, 2002, 8:11:12 AM8/19/02

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Thanks, but then I still can't access anything that's supposedly within that
namespace.

If I use your line to create the DLL:

> tlbimp sqldmo.dll /out:sqldmonet.dll /namespace:SQLDMO

...and your example code from here:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=ObGzDNGvAHA.1832%40tkmsftngp05

I get the following errors when I compile:

> csc /reference:sqldmonet.dll backuptest.cs
Microsoft (R) Visual C# .NET Compiler version 7.00.9466
for Microsoft (R) .NET Framework version 1.0.3705
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2001. All rights reserved.

backuptest.cs(15,13): error CS0246: The type or namespace name '__SQLServer'

could not be found (are you missing a usin

directive or an assembly reference?)

backuptest.cs(19,13): error CS0246: The type or namespace name '__Backup'