[Mono-list] ASP (Visual Basic); vbnc vs mbas; was C++/CLI

[Adelle Hartley]

Hi all,

I have read that to get a Visual Basic ASP site working with mono on 
linux, I need to install mbas, the mono visual basic compiler.

The mono visual basic compiler that I have managed to install is called 
"vbnc".  Are vbnc and mbas the same thing, and if not, which one do I need?

On the off-chance that it would work, I tried
   ln vbnc mbas
in the folder where vbnc is installed.

Now my aspx page displays the following message:
File not found: <random_name>.dll

Where <random_name> changes each time I refresh the page.

On a probably unrelated issue,
Jonathan Pryor wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 13:24 +1000, Adelle Hartley wrote:
>> I have built an assembly in Visual C++ 2005 with the /clr:safe compiler 
>> option, following the instructions from here:
>>    http://www.mono-project.com/CPlusPlus
> 
>> The console application works, but the asp web site does not.
>>
>> This is the error that I get on the web site:
>>
>> Parser Error
>> Description: Error parsing a resource required to service this request. 
>> Review your source file and modify it to fix this error.
>> Error message:
>> Assembly Microsoft.VisualC, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, 
>> PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A not found
>>
>> I know from trying to get the console application to work, that any CRT 
>> dependancy is a problem, but if the C++ assembly depends on Microsoft 
>> CRT, then why would the console application work?
> 
> That error message implies that it's looking for the assembly
> Microsoft.VisualC.dll, which isn't the C runtime (MSVCRT.DLL, etc.), but
> a support assembly.
> 
> Mono does provide a Microsoft.VisualC.dll assembly, and you likely don't
> have it installed.  You need to install the libmono-microsoft7.0-cil
> and libmono-microsoft8.0-cil packages.

Thanks.  I seem to have progressed to the next problem now.

Adelle.