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Artyom stared at the prompt for Task 4, Chapter 3: Analyze the tectonic structure of the Ural Mountains and explain their mineral wealth.
Artyom smiled faintly, thinking of the taped spine of the old book in his backpack. "I looked at it," he admitted. "But I wanted to see the diamonds." reshebnik po geografii 8 klass je.m rakovskoj
The next day in class, his geography teacher didn't just give him a grade. She stopped by his desk, looking at his homework. "This shows real understanding, Artyom. You didn't just copy the standard student guide, did you?" Artyom stared at the prompt for Task 4,
The handwriting in the margins caught his eye. This wasn't a pristine, newly printed guide. It was a relic passed down through his school’s unofficial black market of used books. In the margin of the Urals section, scribbled in faded blue ink, were the words: “Don't just copy the geological eras. Imagine the pressure that made the diamonds.” "But I wanted to see the diamonds
He didn't copy the text. He wrote his own analysis of the collision of ancient continents, inspired by the structure the Reshebnik showed him but fueled by his own imagination.
The problem is with the "dependency". The only dependency is the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012. The Chilkat .NET assembly is a mixed-mode assembly, where the inner core is written in C++ and compiles to native code. There is a dependency on the VC++ runtime libs. Given that Visual Studio 2012 is new, it won't be already on most computers. Therefore, it needs to be installed. It can be downloaded from Microsoft here:
Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012
If using a .msi install for your app, it should also be possible to include the redist as a merge-module, so that it's automatically installed w/ your app if needed.
Note: Each version of Visual Studio corresponded to a new .NET Framework release:
VS2002 - .NET 1.0 2003 - .NET 1.1 2005 - .NET 2.0 2008 - .NET 3.5 2010 - .NET 4.0 2012 - .NET 4.5The ChilkatDotNet45.dll is for the .NET 4.5 Framework, and therefore needs the VC++ 2012 runtime to be present on the computer.
Likewise, the ChilkatDotNet4.dll is for the 4.0 Framework and needs the VC++ 2010 runtime.
The ChilkatDotNet2.dll is for the 2.0/3.5 Frameworks and requires the VC++ 2005 runtime. (It is unlikely you'll find a computer that doesn't already have the VC++ 2005 runtime already installed.)