Prerequisites for Acrobat SDK

Hey! I just downloaded the Acrobat SDK and tried to run the samples for c#.
The code breaks at  AcroExchApp = CreateObject("AcroExch.App") with error: "Cannot create ActiveX component"
It is caused by the interop.Acrobat.dll and it means it could not find acrobat.dll.
I wanted to know what are the prerequisites for the SDK? I could not find any documentation telling this with the SDK.
Regards,
Kangkan
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What do you mean by "edit"?  In general, yes, it should be fine – but I'd need more specifics.
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