Problems building .rhp file

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Hello All,

I’m working in Visual Studio 2013, and Csharp, building off of the SampleCsModelessForm example by Dale Fugier, and I’ve run in to a strange configuration issue:

I can “run” my code, in “debugging” mode, rhino 5 fires up, and I type in samplecsmodelessform, and the command line doesn’t accept the command. the plugin hasn’t been loaded and the command doesn’t exist. If I try to drag and drop the .rhp file in to rhino to load the plugin, I get a very generic error that reads:

'Unable to load SampleCsModelessForm.rhp plug-in: initialization failed."

clicking on details doesn’t give me any further information.

the one thing i noticed is that the .rhp file doesn’t update when I build my solution. the “program debug database” does, but the .rhp file with the same name doesn’t.

any information or help would be extremely helpful, thank you.

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  • The error usually means that a dll dependency is missing. If you have references to dlls, they should be in the same folder or in the search path.

  • You can force a build our rebuild by right clicking on the project and selecting the corresponding action.

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thanks for your reply menmo.

I’ve tried building, and rebuilding, and cleaning the project a number of times. and I havn’t been able to resolve this.

the next thing I 'll try will be to simply reinstall the code, clear out the project and re-add it, etc. Do you know if the rhino sdk runs in to issues if you use github etc.? have you encountered any discussions about that?

-Nick

p.s. thanks again for your quick reply

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Hi Nick,

I just cloned the project for GitHub, built it with VS2013 and ran it with Rhino 5 SR12. I did have to re-reference RhinoCommon.dll, as the project references a different location (of Rhino) than I have on this system.

Anyway, the project works as i would expect.

– D