Files to be included with your application

Important note about installed version

This section of the documentation applies to the full purchased version only: the trial version of the component comes with an internal protection schema against fraudulent uses which will reset properties of 3D buttons and will turn them into black or gray rectangles when the component is redistributed outside of the development machine where the trial version was originally installed through the provided setup program.

The component's assembly that you need to redistribute with your application depend upon the target .NET platform:

•	for .NET framework 2.0, 3.0 or 3.5 with reference to Ctl3DMagic used inside the project (*)

- Ctl3DMagic.dll

•	for .NET framework 4.0 or higher with reference to Ctl3DMagicF4 used inside the project (*)

- Ctl3DMagicF4.dll

•	for .NET 5 with reference to Ctl3DMagicF5 used inside the project

- Ctl3DMagicF5.dll

•	for .NET 6 with reference to Ctl3DMagicF6 used inside the project

- Ctl3DMagicF6.dll

•	for .NET Core 3.1 with reference to Ctl3DMagicCore3 used inside the project

- Ctl3DMagicCore3.dll

All of the mentioned assemblies work as wrappers for the multimedia engine whose binary file must be redistributed as well:

•	If compiling for "Any CPU"

- the x86 version of the multimedia engine BTN3DMMS.dll

- the x64 version of the multimedia engine BTN3DMMS64.dll

•	If compiling specifically for x86

- the x86 version of the multimedia engine BTN3DMMS.dll

•	If compiling specifically for x64

- the x64 version of the multimedia engine BTN3DMMS64.dll

You can find redistributable files mentioned above inside the folder in which you installed 3D Control Magic (default \Program Files\MultiMedia Soft\3D Control Magic for .NET\Redist).

Important note about the folder chosen for installing our files

In order to avoid the "DLL Hell" problem, it's strongly recommended that you install the mentioned files into the same folder in which you will install the EXE of your container application on the target system and not inside the Windows\System32 or Windows\SysWOW64 folders.

How to create a "ClickOnce" setup containing our component using Visual Studio .NET

•	Inside the "Solution Explorer" open "References"

•	Locate and select the reference to Ctl3dMagic

•	Inside the "Properties" window locate the "Copy Local" property and set it to "True"

•	Inside the "Solution Explorer" right-click the project name

•	From the context menu select "Add\Existing Item..."

•	Inside the "Objects of type" combobox select "Executable files"

•	Locate the directory where Btn3dmms.dll and Btn3dmms64.dll are installed (by default should be under "\Program Files\MultiMedia Soft\3D Control Magic for .NET\Redist")

•	Select Btn3dmms.dll and Btn3dmms64.dll and press the "Add" button

•	for both of them change the "Copy to Output Directory" property to "Copy always"

•	Rebuild the ClickOnce package

(*) Projects originally developed with versions of the components older than 3.3 always use Ctl3DMagic reference: if you want to develop an application that can run directly into a Windows system where versions 2.0, 3.0 or 3.5 are not installed (such as clean installations of Windows 8 and Windows 10), you should set your applications to use ".NET framework 4" (or higher) as target framework and you should replace the original reference to Ctl3DMagic with the newest Ctl3DMagicF4.

The tutorial How to port projects developed with versions older than 3.3 for compilation with .NET framework 4 explains how to perform the porting of your application's project to version 4 of the .NET framework.

The tutorial How to port projects developed with versions older than 3.3 for compilation with .NET 5 and higher versions explains how to perform the porting of your application's project to newer versions of .NET