In VS.Net, when you add a third party component (with the correct .Net licensing methods used) to a project, you add an entry into the licenses.licx file. It appears from what I've seen that VS translates this into some binary form which is used as a resource for the actual compile. It's unclear however how VS knows what executable code (exe or dll) to associate with the license. The only thing I can figure is that it comes from some value in the licx file which is looked up in the registry for a reference to an exe or dll file. Does anyone know if this is correct?
In the license task, you specify a licx file and the program/assembly file. This gets converted/translated into a .license file right? So I run this task before the compiler task and need to use the .license file as a compile resource? The problem is further exacerbated by the fact that I'm using an xsl (gordon w's) to transform the vbproj file into a nant build file (can't use the solution task yet, don't have a newer nant, and have some complex additions that don't yet permit it.) So, I can't manually add the <license> task to my project's build sequence. Because the vbproj uses a single licx file, it seems things are complicated even further. I have just added into my build system the ability to add in "preBuild" and "postBuild" nant tasks before the project build file is called so I may now be able to manually add a license task, but the problem remains that there's only 1 licx file, and the converted .vbproj doesn't know about the additional .license file. I suppose I could put in a dummy .license file so the conversion of the .vbproj knows to include it as a resource. If I can get to the point where I can use the solution task, does this task handle licx files correctly? I have managed to use nant to work around some crazy problems and "special cases" for our build processes but have a brick wall with this license problem. Thanks ahead of time. Peter ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Nant-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users
