Here is the bottom line and I will cut to the proverbial chase. I have created an executable in release mode from Microsoft Visual Studio that is a console application. When I put this .EXE file in a newly-created and empty folder on my computer, it runs without throwing any errors. It seems to work as it is supposed to.
I have given the program to my IT guy who took it from a flash drive to another computer and ran it from the command line (aka "dos prompt") and it says:
Quote:
The application to execute does not exist: 'c:\SharePointListCreation.dll'
The strange thing is that the executable is called 'SharePointListCreation.EXE'. So the error message contains name of the executable but instead of .EXE, it has .DLL. And, why would it call a DLL an application?
I have written a Console App program in Microsoft Visual Studio and compiled using the "Batch Build" command. I have placed this executable into its own folder as I am told from a tutorial to do so that it can run as a task from the Windows 10 "Task Scheduler". It works. I mean, it seems to run from my computer.
My IT guy wants it to be run off the server at the company. So he showed me how to download the settings from the "Task Scheduler". This file is an .XML file.
I have shared the folder that has the .EXE and .XML files with him and he has recently come back to tell me that when he tried to run this program from the command line (it is a console app, by the way), he got an error message stating that there were .DLL's missing.
What associated DLL's need to be included for the release of this net6.0 console app? I went into the directory where Microsoft Visual built the release version of the executable and I see a lot of .DLL's. Which ones should be used by being moved to the folder. Is there another way I could do this? Please advise.
Here is the list of files in the Release folder (what a huge list! Surely, they can not all be required !):
Volume in drive C is OS
Volume Serial Number is C292-BE2E
Directory of C:\source\repos\SharePointListCreation\bin\Release\net6.0
09/26/2024 09:29 AM <dir> .
09/26/2024 09:29 AM <dir> ..
01/15/2023 05:45 PM 406,528 AngleSharp.Css.dll
05/31/2022 01:44 PM 882,176 AngleSharp.dll
07/26/2021 06:36 PM 378,744 Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.dll
11/12/2018 12:30 PM 22,904 Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Abstractions.dll
11/12/2018 12:30 PM 15,224 Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Server.Abstractions.dll
11/12/2018 12:29 PM 76,152 Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Abstractions.dll
11/12/2018 12:29 PM 38,776 Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Extensions.dll
11/12/2018 12:28 PM 32,120 Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Features.dll
11/12/2018 12:37 PM 70,520 Microsoft.AspNetCore.StaticFiles.dll
10/22/2021 06:47 PM 27,264 Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Abstractions.dll
01/14/2022 02:54 PM 38,504 Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Memory.dll
10/22/2021 06:47 PM 25,216 Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Abstractions.dll
10/22/2021 06:48 PM 43,632 Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions.dll
09/26/2022 12:42 PM 82,560 Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.dll
11/10/2018 07:26 PM 17,976 Microsoft.Extensions.FileProviders.Abstractions.dll
11/12/2018 12:30 PM 22,904 Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.Abstractions.dll
10/22/2021 06:50 PM 68,736 Microsoft.Extensions.Http.dll
10/22/2021 06:51 PM 62,064 Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions.dll
10/22/2021 06:50 PM 44,656 Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.dll
10/22/2021 06:50 PM 59,008 Microsoft.Extensions.Options.dll
10/22/2021 06:51 PM 40,048 Microsoft.Extensions.Primitives.dll
11/12/2018 12:28 PM 19,832 Microsoft.Extensions.WebEncoders.dll
03/25/2021 06:18 PM 142,224 Microsoft.Graph.Core.dll
05/20/2021 05:05 PM 8,584,592 Microsoft.Graph.dll
06/06/2024 05:09 PM 1,005,600 Microsoft.Identity.Client.dll
06/06/2024 05:14 PM 66,592 Microsoft.Identity.Client.Extensions.Msal.dll
08/21/2024 11:16 PM 20,000 Microsoft.IdentityModel.Abstractions.dll
08/21/2024 11:16 PM 155,160 Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens.dll
08/21/2024 11:16 PM 36,896 Microsoft.IdentityModel.Logging.dll
08/21/2024 11:16 PM 337,432 Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.dll
11/12/2018 12:28 PM 74,616 Microsoft.Net.Http.Headers.dll
08/20/2024 02:34 PM 101,056 Microsoft.Office.Client.Policy.dll
08/20/2024 02:34 PM 41,720 Microsoft.Office.Client.TranslationServices.dll
08/20/2024 02:34 PM 108,120 Microsoft.Office.SharePoint.Tools.dll
08/20/2024 02:34 PM 528,520 Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.Client.Tenant.dll
08/20/2024 02:34 PM 416,536 Microsoft.ProjectServer.Client.dll
08/20/2024 02:34 PM 1,493,144 Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll
08/20/2024 02:34 PM 50,920 Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.DocumentManagement.dll
08/20/2024 02:34 PM 168,680 Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Publishing.dll
08/20/2024 02:34 PM 200,888 Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll
08/20/2024 02:34 PM 30,408 Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Search.Applications.dll
08/20/2024 02:34 PM 138,816 Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Search.dll
08/20/2024 02:34 PM 92,432 Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Taxonomy.dll
08/20/2024 02:34 PM 181,968 Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles.dll
08/20/2024 02:34 PM 54,416 Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.WorkflowServices.dll
10/22/2021 06:40 PM 26,224 Microsoft.Win32.SystemEvents.dll
03/17/2021 03:03 PM 695,336 Newtonsoft.Json.dll
09/26/2024 09:29 AM 0 output.txt
08/16/2024 06:24 AM 2,518,448 PnP.Core.dll
08/16/2024 06:41 AM 11,162,672 PnP.Framework.dll
10/29/2020 06:07 AM 259,072 Portable.Xaml.dll
09/24/2024 11:26 AM <dir> runtimes
09/25/2024 08:14 PM 96,506 SharePointListCreation.deps.json
09/25/2024 08:14 PM 81,920 SharePointListCreation.dll
09/25/2024 08:14 PM 151,040 SharePointListCreation.exe
09/25/2024 08:14 PM 35,328 SharePointListCreation.pdb
09/25/2024 08:14 PM 253 SharePointListCreation.runtimeconfig.json
08/19/2022 02:58 PM 396,424 System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.dll
02/15/2023 07:32 PM 145,072 System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource.dll
10/22/2021 06:51 PM 130,664 System.DirectoryServices.dll
10/22/2021 06:49 PM 175,216 System.Drawing.Common.dll
08/21/2024 11:16 PM 90,168 System.IdentityModel.Tokens.Jwt.dll
10/22/2021 06:49 PM 122,480 System.IO.Packaging.dll
10/22/2021 06:51 PM 20,592 System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll
10/22/2021 06:49 PM 104,048 System.Security.Permissions.dll
10/23/2022 12:54 PM 457,856 System.Text.Json.dll
10/22/2021 06:49 PM 25,712 System.Windows.Extensions.dll
02/12/2023 03:28 PM 33,792 TimeZoneConverter.dll
67 File(s) 33,235,103 bytes
3 Dir(s) 702,420,926,464 bytes free
What I have tried:
I have run the program locally on my computer and it runs without issue. I had put some Console.Writeline commands but it seems these things only run in debug mode.