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Apr 24, 2013

How to add reference for iControl 11.1.0

OTS02 Hello group. I have been using iControl for a few years now. I thought I would try version 11.1.0. I cannot seem to add iControl 11.1.0 as a reference in Visual Studio (2010). I have downloaded the and extracted the iControl-11.1.0 zip file, and unzipped it. When I try to add a reference by browsing to the folder, Visual Studio does not recognize anything in the folder. As I remember, with the previous version, as soon as I pointed it to the folder, VS pulled it right in. Any suggestions?

 

 

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    Joe_Pruitt
    Apr 25, 2013

    All you should have to do is to point a reference to the iControl.dll included in the distribution. I've never referenced a folder from Visual Studio, I've always had to point directly to the .dll. The latest distro is for 11.3 which I'd suggest you upgrade to. All the 11.1 methods are in there, but you'll be able to access 11.3 systems if you upgrade.

     

    -Joe

     

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    OTS02
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    Apr 25, 2013
    Thank you Joe!

     

    Before I downloaded the 11.1.0 SDK, which has nothing that VS wants to see.

     

    I downloaded iControlAssembly_11_3_0.zip & iControlAssembly_11_3_0-Source.zip. Both of these seem to satisfy VS. Would one be more preferable than the other?

     

     

    Sorry for being high-maintenence.

     

     

    Thanks so much!
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    Joe_Pruitt
    Apr 25, 2013

    No problem. Unless you want to go modifying the iControl assembly, you can just do the binary package (iControlAssembly_11_3_0.zip). The Source distro has the binaries in it as well but you likely won't need all the sources. The SDK is just an offline HTML reference of all the API documentation, it doesn't contain the various libraries.

     

    -Joe