Assistance with converting application to library

[b_girl]

Hello, I've found an article on here that describes how to mask keyed in characters for inputting passwords: ConsolePasswordInput[^] At the bottom of this article it states that it's an application (obviously) but it can be easily converted into a library. I'd love to convert it into a library but I have no idea how to do this. I'm relatively new to C#. I'm currently running MS Visual Studio 2005 with .Net Framework 2.0 I was thinking I could start a new Class Library project and just paste in the required code, but I believe that will create a .dll file. I believe that once my application makes use of this library it will have to register itself, and I was trying to avoid having my application register anything. If anyone is able to help or even just point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it. Please let me know if you need anymore information!

[BoneSoft]

A Class Library project will produce a DLL. By registering, I assume you're talking about registering the DLL to the GAC... Which isn't necessary. You can create a new class library project, and paste in the necessary code. Then have your application reference that DLL (or project if you have both projects in the same solution) to use the classes in the library. If you don't want to do that, you can paste the necessary code into your application's project instead, which will work just the same, it just won't be usable by other projects. Does that help?

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[arow69d]

You are correct that it would create a .dll. You dont have to register it, however, unless you want to, but is usually unnecessary unless you plan on a lot of apps accessing it. Just compile the dll and add a reference to it in your projects. It will be copied and distributed with your app (in the app folder) without registering. If you do decide to register your dll, just create a strong name with the sn.exe utility (from the .NET SDK command prompt) to create a key pair, then assign that to your [assembly:KeyName] attribute of the .dll (assemblyInfo.cs/vb). Then recompile and use gacutil.exe (.NET SDK command prompt) to register the dll in the GAC. Only do this if it is absolutely necessary, however. HTH. Aaron Dilliard

[b_girl]

Thank you both for your help - I'm going to give this a try tomorrow :) Now that I know a dll doesn't have to be registered, it should all be ok!

[b_girl]

Just thought I'd let you all know that I managed to get the library working successfully. Thank you for all your help :-D