Manual Compiling

[Jim Heavey]

Hello, trying to round out my knowlege here about compiling. To date I
have used VS.Net to do all my compiling "majically" , but I want to
understand how to do it on my own, should the need ever arrise.

It has been suggested to me that I should use the following pattern when
compiling my programs, but I am not sure I understand the "pattern",

Try creating a text file along the following lines where the /r are the
dlls
you are importing. (this may take some time to get right) then do vbc
@yourtextfile at dos prompt. The following should be on one line.

/t:library /out:c:\pathtobi n\nameof.dll c:\pathtofile\n ame.vb
/r:system.dll
/r:system.web.dl l /r:system.xml.dl l /r:system.data.d ll

So I am trying to translate this suggestion...

Any object in which I am specifying an "Imports" statement (VB.Net) in
my program is a "dll". Is this correct?

When I do as suggested on a "helper/utility class" (used by other
classes), I get errors like the following:

error BC30420: 'Sub Main' was not found in 'Compile_Databa seAccess'.
error BC30188: Declaration expected (underlining the following:
/r:Microsoft.Vis ualBasic and /r:System.Collec tions)

This error is followed by several pages of "BC30188: Declaration
expected".

Here is the text file I created per the suggestion above...

/t:library /out:H:\Temp\Tem pASP.NET\DataBa seAccess.dll H:\Temp
\TempASP.NET\Da taBaseAccess.vb /r:system.dll /r:system.web.dl l
/r:system.xml.dl l /r:system.data.d ll /r:Imports System.Data.Sql Client
/r:System.Web.UI /r:System.Web.UI .WebControls /r:Microsoft.Vis ualBasic
/r:System.Config uration /r:System.Collec tions

Any Ideas what I am doing wrong?

[Alvin Bruney]

> Any object in which I am specifying an "Imports" statement (VB.Net) in

my program is a "dll". Is this correct? no. objects are not imported only assemblies via their namespace.

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news:Xn******** *************** **********@207. 46.248.16... Hello, trying to round out my knowlege here about compiling. To date I
have used VS.Net to do all my compiling "majically" , but I want to
understand how to do it on my own, should the need ever arrise.

It has been suggested to me that I should use the following pattern when
compiling my programs, but I am not sure I understand the "pattern",

Try creating a text file along the following lines where the /r are the
dlls
you are importing. (this may take some time to get right) then do vbc
@yourtextfile at dos prompt. The following should be on one line.

/t:library /out:c:\pathtobi n\nameof.dll c:\pathtofile\n ame.vb
/r:system.dll
/r:system.web.dl l /r:system.xml.dl l /r:system.data.d ll

So I am trying to translate this suggestion...

Any object in which I am specifying an "Imports" statement (VB.Net) in
my program is a "dll". Is this correct?

When I do as suggested on a "helper/utility class" (used by other
classes), I get errors like the following:

error BC30420: 'Sub Main' was not found in 'Compile_Databa seAccess'.
error BC30188: Declaration expected (underlining the following:
/r:Microsoft.Vis ualBasic and /r:System.Collec tions)

This error is followed by several pages of "BC30188: Declaration
expected".

Here is the text file I created per the suggestion above...

/t:library /out:H:\Temp\Tem pASP.NET\DataBa seAccess.dll H:\Temp
\TempASP.NET\Da taBaseAccess.vb /r:system.dll /r:system.web.dl l
/r:system.xml.dl l /r:system.data.d ll /r:Imports System.Data.Sql Client
/r:System.Web.UI /r:System.Web.UI .WebControls /r:Microsoft.Vis ualBasic
/r:System.Config uration /r:System.Collec tions

Any Ideas what I am doing wrong?