Implicit reference in all iLogic rules

[mat_hijs]

I have created a dll that includes some subs and functions that I want to be able to use in iLogic rules. I can do this by writing the following statement in the header of the rule.

AddReference "MSInventorTools.dll" 

 This works perfectly, but I'm wondering if there's a way to create an implicit reference to this dll so that I don't need to explicitly reference it in every rule I write. Does anyone have any idea if this is possible?

[bradeneuropeArthur]

You have created your dll with vb.net or equal. Why are you not directly creating an add in. I only see benefits of this approach, and using ilogic for design configuration and testing only.....

[mat_hijs]

The biggest reason for this is that it's a lot easier to quickly create or modify a rule that does something and throw it away when I'm done with it than it is to incorporate it into an add-in. For static things, definitely the add-in would be better.

The second reason for this could be when using custom classes to represent custom objects. I don't want to copy the whole code of the classes to every rule, and I'd also like to avoid having to add a reference manually every time I write a new rule. This mostly comes in when building configurators for me.

Another example for me is when using Excel, when I do it in iLogic I don't seem to have any issues, but when using the same code in an add-in, for some reason Excel often keeps running in the background after the code was ran. I've been searching how to solve this and came across some things about releasing objects, but this still doesn't seem to fix all my issues.