twapi.dll not found at path

[hhansen]

Hello!

First time poster here - hope you'll be able to help me out.  I've added some Thingworx functionality to our Windows .Net application via the SDK.  It's up and running and sending information back to our mashup and most things are working as they should.

One thing that is puzzling me is that I get an error message (via a trace listener) whenever I launch the application by double clicking on an associated file that is located elsewhere in the file system.  So: Normal launch means no error message - double click on associated file which in turns bring up our application gives this output in the trace:

[L: Critical] [T: 1] [U: libu] [O: com.thingworx.communications.client.TwApiWrapper] Initializaion warning: the core library was not found at path [C:\<application install directory>\Bin\tw\x86\twApi.dll]

Which is odd, as we distributed the twApi.dll directly under \Bin.  The tw\x86 part of the path looks like the distribution from PTC, however.  I'm at a bit of a loss here to why it looks for twapi.dll in different places depending on how we start the application.  Any feedback is welcome, thanks.

[ytella]

Hi Harald hansen,

Please refer to the following article on twAPI.dll initializing error. Hope it helps!

https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS258285&language=en&posno=1&q=twapi.dll&ProductFamily=ThingWorx%7CNRN%7CAxeda&source=search&source=Sitecore%20Article%20Viewer

[hhansen]

Thanks for the reply, but it's not really a solution.  The thing is, twapi.dll loads normally when starting our application by directly running the executable (like from the menu, clicking on an icon etc).  Then it's able to locate the dll where we've put it.  It's when we start by double clicking on an associated file somewhere else the problem appears and it seems like it expect the tw\x86 path.

[hhansen]

Hmm, seems like I can't reproduce the "works as intended" scenario here.  Now it can't find twapi.dll directly under bin in any circumstance.  So either I'm an idiot or something changed.

So my questions is rather "why does it demand the "tw/x86" path for the DLL all the time?  Shouldn't it be happy with twapi.dll just living in the same directory as the executable?