Third Party Libraries, Best Practice

[NJA_MC]

I have started looking at getting ACCORD .NET running under NT8.

I installed the Libraries on my system and setup references to the required DLLs, wrote some test code (copied from ACCORD .NET site) and compiled with no problems.

The issue was when I tried to execute the code. I got exceptions back from the ACCORD Library that it could find some of its dependencies.

So I copied all the DLLs into the /bin/custom/ folder and restarted. After the restart I could run the application. It seems like NT8 needs to load the DLLs at startup and the reference link doesn't seem to do that part of the job.

Are we required to place all 3rd party DLLs in the CUSTOM directory or is there a way to extend the search path to other directories?

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello NJA_MC,

You would in fact need to place the libraries in the Custom folder.

[NJA_MC]

Yes, I did add them through the reference dialog box.

The NinjaScript gave an error until I moved the DLLs into the /bin/custom/ folder and restarted.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Thanks for following up, looks like we posted at the same time here.

You would need to place those files in the custom folder as this will be loaded on start up of the program.