Article ID: 179285
Article Last Modified on 10/24/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 Enterprise Edition
- Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Enterprise Edition
This article was previously published under Q179285
SYMPTOMS
When a DLL add-in is disabled in Developer Studio through the
Tools/Customize dialog box (click Customize on the Tools menu), the DLL is
not unloaded from memory. As a result, if the add-in is being built in
Developer Studio, the linker cannot overwrite the still-loaded DLL and will
give the following error message:
LINK : fatal error LNK1168: cannot open Debug/test.dll for writing
NOTE: Test.dll is the name of the add-in DLL.
RESOLUTION
After disabling the add-in, close Developer Studio then reopen Developer
Studio. The development environment will not load the add-in, and therefore
changes may be made to the DLL.
STATUS
This behavior is by design.
REFERENCES
The online help topic "Disconnecting Add-ins from Developer Studio"
describes part of the process of disabling an add-in:
If you remove the check mark from an add-in, you will unload it. When
you unload it, the add-in loses all of its toolbar and keystroke
assignments.
This statement is misleading because the add-in is not unloaded from
memory, but rather the functions provided in the add-in are unloaded from
Developer Studio. This is made clearer in the topic "How Add-ins Connect
and Disconnect":
When Developer Studio quits, it unloads each add-in by calling the
OnDisconnection method exposed by the add-in's DSAddIn object.
Consult your product documentation for more information on creating and
using add-ins in Developer Studio.
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