Global Assembly Cache Problem

[nbruckelmyer]

I cannot get GAC to work. If you see I did anything wrong, please let me know.
Here is my file

**********hwmod2.vb******************
Imports System
Imports System.Reflection


<assembly:AssemblyVersionAttribute(&quot;1.0.0.0&quot>
<assembly:AssemblyKeyFileAttribute(&quot;hwmod2.snk&quot>

Namespace HW
Public Class Test
Public Sub Hello(strLang As String)
If strLang = &quot;SP&quot; Then
System.Console.WriteLine(&quot;Hola&quot
Else
System.Console.WriteLine(&quot;Hello&quot
End If
End Sub
End Class
End Namespace
***************************************

I create my key using -
sn -k hwmod2.snk

I then compile the file using -
vbc /out:hwmod2.dll /t:library hwmod2.vb

I then install the file into GAC -
gacutil /i hwmod2.dll

Everything has worked fine till here.
I create my test file in another folder.

********* MyTest.vb************
Imports HW

Namespace MyTest
Public Class Test
Public Sub Test()
hw.Hello(&quot;hi&quot
End Sub
End Class
End Namespace
*****************************

I get this error when I try to compile this file. Any ideas.

vbc MyTest.vb


************* Here is my error msg***********************
Microsoft (R) Visual Basic .NET Compiler version 7.00.9466
for Microsoft (R) .NET Framework version 1.00.3705
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1987-2001. All rights reserved.

vbc : error BC30420: 'Sub Main' was not found in 'MyTest'.
C:\GAC\test\MyTest.vb(1) : error BC30466: Namespace or type 'HW' for the Imports
'HW' cannot be found.

Imports HW
~~
C:\GAC\test\MyTest.vb(4) : error BC30001: Statement is not valid in a namespace.


Dim h As New HW()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:\GAC\test\MyTest.vb(7) : error BC30451: Name 'h' is not declared.

h.Hello(&quot;hi&quot
~
****************************************************

Please help me if you can.

Thanks.

 

[chiph]

If you have a class Test in namespace HW, and you have another one named Test in namespace MyTest, how can the compiler tell them apart?

Try this:

Imports HW

Namespace MyTest
  Public Class TT-Test
    Public Sub TT-Test() 
      Dim objTest as New Test  ' from namespace HW
      objTest.Hello("hi")
    End Sub
  End Class
End Namespace

Chip H.

 

[nbruckelmyer]

I tried your code and here is what I got

vbc : error BC30420: 'Sub Main' was not found in 'MyTest'.
C:\GAC\test\MyTest.vb(1) : error BC30466: Namespace or type 'HW' for the Imports
'HW' cannot be found.

Imports HW
~~
C:\GAC\test\MyTest.vb(4) : error BC30205: End of statement expected.

Public Class TT-Test
~~~~~
C:\GAC\test\MyTest.vb(5) : error BC30205: End of statement expected.

Public Sub TT-Test()
~~~~~~~
C:\GAC\test\MyTest.vb(6) : error BC30002: Type 'Test' is not defined.

Dim objTest as New Test ' from namespace HW

 

[chiph]

OK, one error at a time:

You need to declare a Sub Main to act as the entry point to your program, and set your project properties so that .NET knows to start there.

The other &quot;end of statement&quot; errors could be a cut and paste error, or could be related to that the class is named TT-Test while the source file is named &quot;MyTest&quot;.

Chip H.