Hi,

I'm working on deploying our application written in VB 2008. Our app's backend is a SQL Server Express 2005 DB.

I have found a white paper titled: "Embedding SQL Server Express into Custom Applications", written by Robert Walters for MS SQL Server 2005.

In this white paper, they have included sample code for writing a wrapper to deploy SQL Server Express 2005. However, the sample code is written in C#. I have not used C# until now. I was able to get the code compiled, but with the exception of one last error. The error is in one part of the code where we want to instantiate a new system process. The line of code below:

Process myProcess = new Process();

It looks perfectly fine to me. However, the compiler is saying:

"Error 1 The type or namespace name 'Process' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)..."

I have spent over an hour googling the web and also checking out MSDN. All code examples provided seem to be using the System.Diagnostic namespace. I tried to put in the same reference at the beginning of the block of code, but the compiler is still not happy.

Apologies if this thread is a repeat, but I could not seem to be able to find an answer to the problem yet.

Thank you very much for all your help.

Khoi Nguyen

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Khoi Nguyen

Strange.... The Process class is indeed located in the System.Diagnostics namespace (notice the s in Diagnostics; not sure that's a typo in your post). This class is located in the System.dll assembly which should be included in your project by default.

What kind of application is this?

Imar


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Hi,

Sorry, it was just a typo in my post. I checked my code again and indeed it has System.Diagnostics. Everywhere that I found , they all say the same thing which is that the Process class is defined in System.Diagnostics.

This C# program contains a simple class to detect whether SQL Server Express 2005 has been installed on a machine. If it already exists then no installation is needed. Otherwise, proceed with installing SQL Server Express 2005.

I got the sample code from the white paper that I mentioned for deploying SQL Server Express with a custom app.

Any thoughts?

Khoi Nguyen

Do you have a reference to System.dll in your project?

Imar


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Apologies, the answer to your question is No. It turns out that I did not have System.dll added in as a reference. I thought that by doing "using System" at the beginning of my code is essentially the same thing, but as it turns out, I had to do Project > Add Reference and then select System from the list for it to work!

Thanks for your help.

Khoi Nguyen

Yes, something to be aware of there is that there is not a one to one relationship between namespace and referenced DLL. Most (but probably not all) of the System namespace is actually in the MSCORLIB.DLL, while other parts are no doubt in the System.dll assembly.

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