加载失败...\x86\SNI.dll

Question

I am trying out Entity Framework (Core). I installed the packages from NuGet and wrote a very basic program to test things out. However, when I run it, I get System.TypeInitializationException and inside that, there is a Win32Exception - Failed to load C:\\...Documents\\x86\\SNI.dll .

The path where it's looking is wrong. The Dll is inside the project folder, but for some reason it is trying to load it from my documents folder. When I copy and paste the x86 folder from where it was installed to documents, the program works. However, I would be happier if it just worked the way it should, and loaded the Dll from where it is installed.

Is there any way to achieve this?

Answer 1

For me it seems to be an issue with the string "C#" in the path, especially the "#" character. I was facing the same issue. My path of the project was

D:\Company\Projects\C#\Live\pg_change_tool_new\

...and it was trying to load the DLL from this path:

D:\Company\Projects\x86\SNI.dll

After I cloned the project to a location without the string "C#" in the path name, it tried to load the DLL from the right location:

D:\Company\Projects\pg_change_tool_new\PG_Change_Tool_UI\bin\Debug\x86\SNI.dll

...and it worked fine.