Help with TLB files please

[Mythos44]

Hail to All,

I have many applications that create TLB files which I guess are so that vb2005 can comunicate with the DLL files. Now what I would like to do is have all my TLB files in one folder and have my application point to that folder to use them.

The problem I am having is that my EXE will not run unless all the TLB files are in the same folder as the EXE. I do not want this. I want to put some code into my file that sais that the tlb files it needs are located in say:

C:\MyTLBFiles\

then be able to put my EXE into:

C:\Program Files\My Program\

and still have it work. again right now they all have to be in the same folder which is really bugging me.

Thanks for your help.

[stanav]

In your application, create a user setting in My.Settings to save the user specified path of the tlb file(s), then have your program read from it. If the directory is not valid (blank or non-existent...), prompt the user to enter or browse to a valid directory, then save it in My.Settings.

[Mythos44]

Ok I don't see a file type in my.settings. How do I point to the file? say the file is the following:

C:\MyTBLs\filename.tbl

How do I add that to the settings?

Thank you

Mythos

[stanav]

Go to your project properties, click on the Settings tab and create a setting there. Once you've created a setting, you can access it in code by thru My.Settings.[theSettingNameHere]