Robot API

[Max-88]

Hi,

I have looked at one of Rafal's old posts showing how to create a dll and make it available in Robot, tried same in Visual Studio 2016 Community Edition and I could not figure out how to add the created *.tlb library to *.dll file, point 9 in the attached doc.

Copyright note: the attached doc belongs to and has been posted previously by Rafal 🙂

I have searched the web, no luck.

Needless to say that my programming skills are not up to scratch.

Can anyone enlighten me on this?

cheers

max

[Rafal.Gaweda]

According to google there is no VS 2016 \ VS 2016 CE
https://www.google.ch/search?q=visual+studio+2016&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=CMQ4VtPfDpCejwP...

but of course I can be mistaken

[Max-88]

Hi Rafal,

My bad, it was Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition I was referring to.

https://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs

Thanks for looking into this.

cheers

max

[Rafal.Gaweda]

It seems this version of VS does not contain Resource Editor.
We will see what we can do.

[Rafal.Gaweda · Accepted solution]

I am afraid there is no other solution than buying full VS to edit dll in the way it is required.

Or create exe instead of dll.

[m_redmerski]

Hello Rafal,
Is there any chance to use free tools to build a dll robotaddin? VS Enterprise license is quite expensive for single designer.

Regards

[m_redmerski]

maybe this tool can help: http://www.resedit.net/

the problem is that when i attach the tlb using this tool. And then try to register it to .net I have an error that it's not a .NET assembly

[Anonymous]

i guess you should check interop***.dlls in robot "exe" directory.

there are 3 such kind dlls. you can reference one with "robot" in it's name.