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Adobe's FDFToolKit - .Net Server Setup Tutorial

First setup your IIS Web Server

Read how to Download and Install MS .Net framework

After you have setup your server, and Installed/Upgraded the MS Net SDK, you can begin to setup the components of the server. If your using MS Net, Internet Information Services 5+ there are a few things different between Active Server Pages (Asp) and ASP.NET (Aspx) components.

First thing ASP using components installed on the server through dynamic references directly to the component. In ASPx files components are referenced through a file called a Wrapper Class. Using Microsoft Type Library to Assembly Converter (TlbImp.exe) the wrapper class references the registered library.

TBLIMP.exe is an executable that is installed with MS .NET Framework SDK.

The Location of TBLIMP.exe is in the "<root>:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\v1.1\Bin" directory.

Registering The Library Components:

The files you need to reference are FDFACX.DLL, and binReadWriteBuf.dll.

First thing is to register them using RegSvr32.dll. To do this follow these steps.

Download both FDFACX.zip, binReadWriteBuf.dll.

Unzip the folders, and extract them into the Windows/System32 folder of the root directory.

Using RegSvr32.exe you can register the components.

From Windows, Click [Start], [Run], type "command", press enter

From Command Window, type the following.

cd %windowsroot%\system32

Type RegSvr32 %windowsroot%\system32\fdfacx.dll

Press Enter

Type RegSvr32 %windowsroot%\system32\binReadWriteBuf.dll

Press Enter

Now the Library Components are Registered.

Creating the Wrapper Class: [MS Information - Wrapper Class]

I will summarize the link in this heading.

Created a batch file Wrapper_Setup.bat that contains the following DOS executables.

Copy the contents of the text area below, open Notepad and paste the contents. Change the file extension from .txt to All Files (*.*), and save file as Wrapper_Setup.bat in the following directory.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\Bin

cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\Bin\ tlbimp C:\WINDOWS\system32\fdfacx.dll /out:C:\DLLs_ASPX\FdfAcx_Net.dll cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\Bin\ tlbimp C:\WINDOWS\system32\binReadWriteBuf.dll /out:C:\DLLs_ASPX\BinReadWrite_Net.dll

To run the Batch file, open Windows Explorer, and double-click the file.

Put these two files ( FDFAcx_Net.dll & BinReadWrite_Net.dll ) into both the \bin directory of your "Root" web site, and in the \bin directory of your virtual directory of your web application.
Example:

Virtual Directory = c\wwwroot\webapplication\
Place the two files in c\wwwroot\bin and c\wwwroot\webapplication\bin directories.

Reference the DLL's in your Visual Studio .Net application