Infragistics components on build server

Question

I have \"inherited\" a new (old?) Winforms project and would like to put it onto our build server (Bamboo). That build server has only the absolute minimum (.NET 3.5 and not muc

Answer 1

The only way I found to solve this problem is this:

• create an absolutely empty (0 byte length) file licenses.licx in my folder where the solution resides
• during initial stages of the build, the source is extracted from my source repository
• when the time comes, just before the build begins, I copy this empty licenses.licx over all the existing licenses.licx in the various projects' Properties directory

With this, now I have both my interactive experience working (since the proper licenses.licx files are present), but my automatic build also doesn't break (since that empty licenses.licx file I copied over all the real ones doesn't cause any aborts in the build)

Seems a bit hackish - but it works. Hope that helps someone, somewhere, some day.

Update: I added this BeforeBuild step to my MSBuild build file to copy the empty *.licx file to the locations I need:

Since I need to replace this *.licx file in several places, I actually have several of those tasks to achieve my goal.