PACKAGING

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have developend an add on using vb.net. I call the load xml function to display the forms in sap b1. Now when i try to package it and create an .ard file i get a file not found exception. Now i know the problem is because im not including the xml files. My question is how do i do it? I have used the sample addONInstaller provided by sap and iv also used the ard generator. But each time i run the setup i get the file not found error. Can someone please help me with this issue

Thanks and Regards

Aris.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Aristotle

What function are you using to load the srf (xml) files? I used a function this function to load the files. See what happens is that at development time .NET runs the executable in the ../bin directory. inside the source code folder. But when you install your add-on, the executable won't be on such directory. Try this function a made a little change to.

    Public Function loadFromXML(ByRef FileName As String, Optional ByVal strSubdirectories As String = "") As String
        '********************************
        ' loads content of the XML File
        '********************************
        Dim oXmlDoc As Xml.XmlDocument
        Try
            oXmlDoc = New Xml.XmlDocument
            Dim strPath As String = System.Windows.Forms.Application.StartupPath
            If Right(strPath, 3) = "bin" Then strPath.Remove(strPath.Length - 3, 3)
            oXmlDoc.Load(strPath & "" & strSubdirectories & "" & FileName)
            Return (oXmlDoc.InnerXml) ' load form to SBO application in one batch
        Catch
            System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("Error loading data from XML file")
        End Try
    End Function

To run successfully in development environment tough you have to include your xml files inside the bin directory (you might be already doing this)

[Former Member]

Hi Neftali

Thanks alot it got the problem solved:)

Regards

Aris