Problem with 3rd party DLL that requires DAO

[FarleySoftware]

I'm stuck on an error message that appears in my Visual Studio VB.NET 2005 project.

When I build the solution, I get the following error:

Unable to find dependency 'DAO' (Signature='31BF3856AD364E35' Version='10.0.4504.0') of assembly '3rdparty.dll'

(3rdparty.dll is not the file name of course)

This error did not appear on the previous development machine. (I'm having a lot of trouble with getting the client to provide a stable design environment)

I've tried adding reference to DAO 3.6 COM DLL with no luck. When I have added it, I get a separate and additional error message stating that I should exclude DAO 3.6's DLL.

Any ideas? Hope I'm posting this in the correct forum; it may not be so much a language thing as a Visual Studio thing.

 

[Sorwen]

I'm not very good at these problems, but let me say what happened to me two different times when I had a similar problems.

1) The 3rdparty.dll would only look for the item through the DAC and only if it was installed in the default directory.

2) The 3rdparty.dll installed it's own version and because of multiple dependencies would not work unless I used the 3rdparty.dll's installer.

Both times I tried everything I could short and short of installing the software/dll from the original setup it just wouldn't work.

I really don't know if that will help, but at least it is something till you can get a better answer.

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