setup related error in c# with visual studio

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I create the setup with the serial key & for validation of the key i have written function for validation.
i have all .dll & msi.lib

but i got the error as:
error : unresolved external symbol "unsigned int __stdcall MsiSetPropertyW(unsigned long,wchar_t const *,wchar_t const *)" (?MsiSetPropertyW@@YGIKPB_W0@Z) referenced in function "unsigned int __stdcall VerifyPID(unsigned long)" (?VerifyPID@@YGIK@Z) testdll.obj testdll

so how can i solve the problem?
please reply

Posted 7-Feb-11 23:16pm

astika

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Nithin Sundar 8-Feb-11 5:52am

Well linker errors are a bit tricky to solve by others who haven't seen your code so I suppose you might want to take a look at this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138400

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Nish Nishant · Answer 1 · 2011-02-08T05:38:00

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It's not enough to just have the lib file in the project folder, you also need to specify the lib to the linker as an additional linker library. Have you done that?

Posted 8-Feb-11 5:38am

Nish Nishant