Using CSharp Mapscript with VS2005 and .NET 2.0

[Tamas Szekeres]

Hi,

This kind of problem might be dedicated to missing libraries
referenced by the mapscript package. You might want to use
sysinternal's filemon or a similar tool to detect the dll-s could not
be loaded. I suggest to place all the dll-s into your application
directory (where mapscript.dll and mapscript_csharp.dll resides)

You should also recompile mapserver and mapscript with VS2005 to make
sure mapscript_csharp.dll targets the MS.NET FW 2.0 instead of 1.1.
The windows buildkit is the best choice to have all the files needed
for the compilation

http://hobu.stat.iastate.edu/mapserver/build_output/


Best Regards,

Tamas


2006/8/28, Jim Bartol <jbartol at mmm.com>:
> I have been experimenting with the latest version of MS4W V2.1 via a web
> browser, and learning some of the basics about how MapServer works.  I am
> now trying to use CSharp Mapscript to access MapServer directly from a
> WinForms application.  I understand that the MS4W binaries have been
> compiled for .NET 1.1, and that there are some issues with running them
> against .NET 2.0 as described in
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/mapscriptcscompile.  My
> *.exe.manifest file shows a reference to the CRT as described in section
> 3.1 of this website, but I still get a runtime error "The type initializer
> for 'mapscriptPINVOKE' threw an exception" when creating an instance of a
> MapServer object (e.g., mapObj map = new MapObj("mapfile.map").  Both
> mapscript.dll and mapscript_csharp.dll are in my bin/debug directory.
>
> I came across a previous post from David Lother who may have worked through
> a similar problem.  Any suggestions as to what I might be missing in
> regards to building a WinForms app with CSharp Mapscript?  Could there be
> something I've overlooked regarding manifest files?  Can I use MS4W V2.1
> with .NET 2.0, or should I rebuild the binaries using the VS2005 compiler?
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide,
>