Soap Formatter namespace not found

1 Jun 2006 1:13 PM

Matthew Connor

Hi all:

   I am new to VB.NET and I am trying to serialize a custom structure
via a SOAP formatter. My Microsoft published Visual Basic .NET book
says to use the following Imports statement:

Imports System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap

   The problem is that VB is not recognizing that as a valid namespace
and is generating the following error:

error BC30466: Namespace or type 'Soap' for the Imports
'System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap' cannot be found.

Can anyone shed some light on this? I have the .NET Framework 2.0
installed but as you can see from my system information below, the IDE
reports version 1.0. I don't know if that is significant or not. Thank
you!

---SYSTEM INFO---
Microsoft Development Environment 2002 Version 7.0.9492
Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 Version 1.0.3705
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET   55538-700-1768733-18470

Matthew Connor

1 Jun 2006 1:24 PM

Larry Lard

Matthew Connor wrote:
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> Hi all:
>
> I am new to VB.NET and I am trying to serialize a custom structure
> via a SOAP formatter. My Microsoft published Visual Basic .NET book
> says to use the following Imports statement:
>
> Imports System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap
>
> The problem is that VB is not recognizing that as a valid namespace
> and is generating the following error:
>
> error BC30466: Namespace or type 'Soap' for the Imports
> 'System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap' cannot be found.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this?

You need to include a reference to the DLL
System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.dll - this namespace isn't
in one of the default-included DLLs. Don't ask me why :) The place to
look in the docs for this is in 'about X class' topic, at the bottom in
the Requirements section, where it says 'Assembly:'

> I have the .NET Framework 2.0
> installed but as you can see from my system information below, the IDE
> reports version 1.0. I don't know if that is significant or not. Thank
> you!
>
> ---SYSTEM INFO---
> Microsoft Development Environment 2002 Version 7.0.9492
> Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 Version 1.0.3705
> Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 55538-700-1768733-18470

The various versions of Visual Studio.NET are tightly coupled to the
various versions of the Framework:

2002 <-> 1.0
2003 <-> 1.1
2005 <-> 2.0

So the apps you are making are actually targetting the 1.0 Framework.
Note that while you may have Framework 2.0 installed, you *also* have
1.0 installed. It's not like, say, a DLL in the old days, where the
later version replaces the former. The various Frameworks are separate
entities and coexist with each other.

--
Larry Lard
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1 Jun 2006 1:29 PM

Matthew Connor

Larry Lard wrote:

> You need to include a reference to the DLL
>System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.dll

Larry:

This worked perfectly! Thank you very much for your quick, helpful
response! Also, the information about 2002 targeting the 1.0 framework
is good to know! Take care.

Matthew Connor