AutoIt (AutoItX) in C # Windows 7 App System.DllNotFoundException

Question

I have a C # application that uses AutoItX for automation. This application works fine in my Windows 8.1 x64 environment compiled with the release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 3.

I copied a copy of the application code to the bitbucket repository and cloned it to a computer running Windows 7 x64. AutoItX 3.14.2 was installed and 32-bit calls were selected. The application was compiled using Visual Studio 2013 4 release .

The application compiled fine, but the first use of AutoIt functions resulted in an error:

An unhandled exception of type 'System.DllNotFoundException' occurred in AutoItX3.Assembly.dll

I have tried the following steps. The app has been tested after each of these steps.

• Trying to register .dll manually with regsrv32

  regsrv32 "C: \ Program Files (x86) \ AutoIt3 \ AutoItX \ AutoItX3.dll"

• Remote VisualStudio 2013 R4 and tried to reinstall VisualStudio 2013 R3 {Installation of R3 failed because Internet Explorer version 10 and version 11 were installed on this computer}, so R4 was reinstalled

• Removed AutoIt and reinstalled by selecting the 64-bit library. Compiled application with x64 platform option

• Removed AutoIt and reinstalled using 32-bit library preferences Compiled application with X86 Platform option

• AutoItX3.dll manually copied to the directory C: \ windows \ System32

• Manual copy of AutoItX3_x64.dll to the c: \ Windows \ SysWOW64 directory. Compiled an application for the x64 platform

• A cleaned computer will clean and reinstall Windows 7, AutoIt (32-bit preference), Visual Studio 2013 R4

• Installed AutoIt v14

• ​​- AutoIt v15

• Windows - 213 (!)

• Internet Explorer v11

• Windows - 4

• AutoIt 3.10.2, Windows 8

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Answer 3

AutoItX3.dll /bin/Debug /bin/Release.

What you can do is add Post-build events to the command line:

copy /Y "$(SolutionDir)\packages\AutoItX.3.3.12.0\AutoItX3.dll" "$(ProjectDir)\bin\Debug" 

 

copy /Y "$(SolutionDir)\packages\AutoItX.3.3.12.0\AutoItX3.dll" "$(ProjectDir)\bin\Release"