WebKit.NET with C# Project Runtime Exception

Question

I have downloaded WebKit.NET 0.5-bin-cairo to work with an existing C# Project. I've included WebKitBrowser.dll and WebKit.Interop.dll as a reference to the module that requires it, as well as playing them directly in the debug/bin folder as directly by this tutorial.

I do not get any errors until I run the project and get an exception on this line in InitializeComponent() of the designer class.

this.webKitBrowser1 = new WebKit.WebKitBrowser();

The exception:

An unhandled exception of type 'System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception' occurred in WebKitBrowser.dll

Additional information: Failed to initialize activation context

I am building all the modules as 86x debug and my computer is 64 bit.

Any suggestions are appreciated as I've been playing around with this for multiple days.

Answer 1

I had encountered same issue. Three things were missing in my scenario.

1. manifest files: must be placed as all dlls are dynamically linked
2. VC++ must be installed on machine: In my case I used vc++2005 redistributable sp1.
3. Not only dlls/pdb/manifest you need to copy all the folders to root directory of executable

There is no correct packaging available yet for all files/folders of webkit.NET And obviously project architecture should be x86 for all projects referencing webkit dlls