Licensing (.NET 2.0 / VS2005)

marcl508

After converting to 2005 my Toolkit will not license correctly.

Is there something special I need to do?

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Build started: Project: DataUtil, Configuration: Debug Any CPU

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C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\bin\LC.exe /target:DataUtil.exe /complist:licenses.licx /outdir:obj\Debug\ /i:"C:\Program Files\Red Gate SQL Bundle\RedGate.Compression.ZLib.dll" /i:"C:\Program Files\Red Gate SQL Bundle\RedGate.SQL.Shared.dll" /i:"C:\Program Files\Red Gate SQL Bundle\RedGate.SQLCompare.Engine.dll" /i:"C:\Program Files\Red Gate SQL Bundle\RedGate.SQLDataCompare.Engine.dll" /i:"C:\Program Files\Red Gate SQL Bundle\RedGate.SQLPackager.Engine.dll" /i:C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Data.dll /i:C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.dll /i:C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Drawing.dll /i:C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.EnterpriseServices.dll /i:C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Windows.Forms.dll /i:C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Xml.dll /i:C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.dll /i:"C:\Program Files\Red Gate SQL Bundle\RedGate.Licensing.Helper.dll" /i:"C:\Program Files\Red Gate SQL Bundle\RedGate.Licensing.Client.dll" /i:C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.VisualC.dll /i:C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Web.Services.dll
licenses.licx(1): error LC0003: Unable to resolve type 'RedGate.SQLCompare.Engine.Database'
licenses.licx(2): error LC0003: Unable to resolve type 'RedGate.SQLDataCompare.Engine.ComparisonSession'
licenses.licx(3): error LC0003: Unable to resolve type 'RedGate.SQLPackager.Engine.PackagerEngine'
Done building project "DataUtil.csproj" -- FAILED.
========== Build: 0 succeeded or up-to-date, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========

Brian Donahue

Hello Marc,

SQL Toolkit components are not compatible with .NET Framework 2.0 at this time. I'd suggest building your project against 1.0 or 1.1 to prevent this kind of strangeness.

If you are using a compiler other than Visual Studio, you could also have problems with the licensing because it only seems to work properly from there. Manually running LC.exe to licence components always seems to fail inexplicably.

marcl508

When will this issue be resolved?

Brian Donahue

Seeing as Framework 2.0 has just gone RTM, we should have it fully working with the new Visual Studio by the end of the year.

marcl508

Brian Donahue wrote:

Seeing as Framework 2.0 has just gone RTM, we should have it fully working with the new Visual Studio by the end of the year.

Wow, that is a terribly disappointing answer.

Tom Harris

Hi there,

here's a quick fix so that you can at least compile your toolkit applications. You will need to change the .licx file to be a bit more specific for VS.NET 2005

Change

RedGate.SQLCompare.Engine.Database
RedGate.SQLDataCompare.Engine.ComparisonSession
RedGate.SQLPackager.Engine.PackagerEngine

To

RedGate.SQLCompare.Engine.Database, RedGate.SQLCompare.Engine
RedGate.SQLDataCompare.Engine.ComparisonSession, RedGate.SQLDataCompare.Engine
RedGate.SQLPackager.Engine.PackagerEngine, RedGate.SQLPackager.Engine

and it should compile. As our support engineer has pointed out we have not been able to validate that our components work perfectly when executing in the 2.0 runtime. I would suggest you give it a go and let us know how you get on.

Best regards,

Tom