Creating a visual C# project

Using Microsoft Visual Studio, create a Visual C# project to generate the DLLs.

  1. Open Visual Studio and select File > New Project to create a new project.

    In this example, the project is called PCRTest.

  2. Select Class Library to create a class for the project.

    New projet dialog for creating a visual C# project.

  3. Right-click References > Add Reference.

    Screenshot showing the location of Add Reference.

  4. Add IEE common DLL as a reference to your project.

  5. Navigate to the IEE/bin folder and select Itron.EE.Common.TaskManagement.dll.

  6. Click OK.

    The new reference is located under References.

    Screenshot showing the new reference located under References.

  7. Rename Class1 to the value of the TaskAdapterID from the TaskAdapter Insert statement and include the IEE base class name.

  8. Build the project and copy the resulting DLL to the Itron Enterprise Edition\bin directory.

    In this example, PCRTest.dll was generated and copied from PCR\PCRTest\bin\Release to the Itron Enterprise Edition\bin directory.