MSHTLM bug outside visual studio hosting

Hi, i'm in trouble with using mshtml.dll for parsing html pages in a .net console application.....

My application work perfectly when lauched in release mode inside Visual Studio 2008, but as soon as i directly lauch the generated executable from windows explorer i get the following exception from a method call to mshtml api: La référence d'objet n'est pas définie à une instance d'un objet (The object reference is not defined as an object instance).....

Did you know the difference between an application hosted inside visual studio an the one lauched from explorer, or the difference of comportment of mshtml in these both cases.....

Many thanks in advanced for your help and your replies.

Have a nice day.

Hi.

I think that when you try to launch your application from windows explorer, it doesn't find your mshtml.dll. So you can try to:

• copy the dll in the same folder as your exe
• or directly in your IDE, check your dll's properties and test the various options to be sure that it will always be copied in your release / debug directory

The thing you have to remember: if you use an external dll in your application, you always have to deploy both your exe and your dlls.

Regards ;)

Thank for your replie, but mshtml.dll is well accessed by my application, it throw this exception on a call to getattribute method of ihtmlelement object.... when exploring elements content and innerhtml it seems it doesn't parse all my page content when lauched outise of vs but when launched in vs hosting on the same page file tada......it work great......very very strange......