Unable to find assembly ''Syncfusion.Tools.Windows, Version=7.403.0.20, Culture=neutral

[Adam Bruss]

Hi,

We are building a VS 2008 C++ managed/native solution that uses syncfusion dlls. The system it builds on does not have syncfusion suite installed. We have an enterkey.bat that I ran successfully("registering key... done").

The build is failing when writing a resource file for one of our forms. I've attached the build log showing the two errors towards the bottom.

Thanks



BuildLog_ae1d139c.zip

[Velusamy Subramaniam]

Hi Adam


As per your stack trace the error is : Unable to find assembly 'Syncfusion.Tools.Windows

Please ensure it in your machine whether the Syncfusion.tools.windows is avaliable.

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.


Regards
Velusamys

[Adam Bruss]

The dll is there. I'm pointing to its location from Visual Studio when adding a reference.

[Adam Bruss]

The whole error messages are as follows:

c:\ProjectsSVN\src\orionui\view\mainframe.resx : error RG0000: Type could not be read from the data in line 27755, position 5. The type's internal structure may have changed. Either implement ISerializable on the type or provide a type converter that can provide a more reliable conversion format, such as text or an array of bytes. The conversion exception was: Unable to find assembly 'Syncfusion.Tools.Windows, Version=7.403.0.20, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=3d67ed1f87d44c89'.
c:\ProjectsSVN\src\orionui\view\mainframe.resx : error RG0000: Specific exception: "XmlException" Message: "Type could not be read from the data in line 27755, position 5. The type's internal structure may have changed. Either implement ISerializable on the type or provide a type converter that can provide a more reliable conversion format, such as text or an array of bytes. The conversion exception was: Unable to find assembly 'Syncfusion.Tools.Windows, Version=7.403.0.20, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=3d67ed1f87d44c89'. ---> XmlException: Type could not be read from the data in line 27755, position 5. The type's internal structure may have changed. Either implement ISerializable on the type or provide a type converter that can provide a more reliable conversion format, such as text or an array of bytes. The conversion exception was: Unable to find assembly 'Syncfusion.Tools.Windows, Version=7.403.0.20, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=3d67ed1f87d44c89'. Line 27755, position 5. ---> SerializationException: Unable to find assembly 'Syncfusion.Tools.Windows, Version=7.403.0.20, Culture=neutral, PublicKey..."

[Adam Bruss]

Any ideas on this? I'm running Windows 7 and ran our enterkey.bat successfully. The dlls are there.

[Velusamy Subramaniam]

Hi Adam

We are very sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

I was not able to reproduce the issue here.Please can you provide the additional information to fix these issues.

What are all the Syncfusion controls(Syncfusion.Tools.Windows) you are using in the C++ application.

Please could you provide the simple sample to fix these issue.

Regards
Velusamys

[Adam Bruss]

I've attached a simple syncfusion c++ solution that demonstrates the errors messages I have been receiving. The syncfusion dlls are included in the zip file. The dlls might need to be re-added to the project when you run it.

We are are currently using these tools.

Syncfusion.Chart.Base
Syncfusion.Chart.Windows
Syncfusion.Core
Syncfusion.Grid.Base
Syncfusion.Grid.Windows
Syncfusion.Shared.Base
Syncfusion.Shared.Windows
Syncfusion.Tools.Base
Syncfusion.Tools.Windows





SimpleSyncFusionUser_30329664.zip

[Adam Bruss]

To demonstrate the error, build the solution on a computer without syncfusion essential studio installed and with the enterkey.bat successfully run.

[Velusamy Subramaniam]

Hi Adam,

We are very sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

Thanks for providing me the sample to fix the issue.Now we can able to reproduce the issues here.

While developing the project the Syncfusion assemblies are placed in the GAC in the developer machine.So the binary values which are created in the Form1.resx file are based on assemblies from the GAC.If you are build the project in the build machine it refers the necessary assemblies from the GAC.So it displays the error unable to load the assembly.

Ex:Form1.resx file


iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABUAAAAVCAYAAACpF6WWAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAARnQU1BAACxjwv8 YQUAAAAgY0hSTQAAeiYAAICEAAD6AAAAgOgAAHUwAADqYAAAOpgAABdwnLpRPAAAAdFJREFUOE/tlDtL



In order to avoid the issue please place the necessary assemblies into the GAC in the build machine.Now you can build the project successfully.

If you don't want to installed the assemblies into the GAC.Please remove the Form1.resx file from the project.It also works fine.

Regards
Velusamy S

[Adam Bruss]

I added the syncfusion dlls to the GAC and the build succeeded.

Thanks.

[Velusamy Subramaniam]

Hi Adam,

Thanks for the update.Please do not hesitate to create a new incident if you have any issues with our Syncfusion products.

Regards
Velusamy S