C#.net 2008 build problem

[Wendy Elizabeth]

I am asking for help on compiling a C#.net 2008 application since I have not
been able to obtain a successful build with no errors yet.

This application that we need to support has no documentation and the
programmer(s) who wrote the application are not with the company any longer.

This C#.net 2008 solution has lots of project files in it.

You can compile this application in the following modes:
a.debug, b. debug-test, c.debug-development, d. debug-production,
e. release, and there is a class manager configuration file.

I am getting errors like:

1. Error 33 The type or namespace name 'completionImport' could
not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\
TableAdapterManager.cs

I can find the namespace in lots of different *.cs files. However I do not
know what to do get get the correct *.cs file. I am guessing this has to do

2. Warning 2 Could not resolve this reference. Could not locate the assembly
"Q.proxy". Check to make sure the assembly exists on disk. If this reference
is required by your code, you may get compilation errors.

I know that the program would compile without the proxies but I can tell
from the code that I will to use proxies like this.
Thus can you tell me how to resolve this problem.

3. Can you also tell me know to figure out how to obtain a good build
for this soltuion?


Us girls at work have not seen a program like this before since
our most recent experience is using Vb.net 2003.

Thank you very much!

 

[Mr. Arnold]

I am asking for help on compiling a C#.net 2008 application since I have not
been able to obtain a successful build with no errors yet.

This application that we need to support has no documentation and the
programmer(s) who wrote the application are not with the company any longer.

This C#.net 2008 solution has lots of project files in it.

You can compile this application in the following modes:
a.debug, b. debug-test, c.debug-development, d. debug-production,
e. release, and there is a class manager configuration file.

I am getting errors like:

1. Error 33 The type or namespace name 'completionImport' could
not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\
TableAdapterManager.cs

I can find the namespace in lots of different *.cs files. However I do not
know what to do get get the correct *.cs file. I am guessing this has to do

2. Warning 2 Could not resolve this reference. Could not locate the assembly
"Q.proxy". Check to make sure the assembly exists on disk. If this reference
is required by your code, you may get compilation errors.

I know that the program would compile without the proxies but I can tell
from the code that I will to use proxies like this.
Thus can you tell me how to resolve this problem.

3. Can you also tell me know to figure out how to obtain a good build
for this soltuion?


Us girls at work have not seen a program like this before since
our most recent experience is using Vb.net 2003.

Thank you very much!

Are you sure you have the latest code for this application?

Usually when you get the error #1, it means that a project is missing,
the project is there but the code is not up to date for other projects
that are making references to the project.

Are you running out of memory, which can make the compiler not load all
of the code during the compile?

Are you trying to compile the entire application (all the projects) or a
subset of projects based on a solution (.sln) file? If doing a subset of
projects and not compiling the entire solution first will lead to error #1.

Have you looked at the solution tree in the IDE, expanded the
(References) for each project to see what is missing?

Are you doing Project Reference for each project?

 

[Wendy Elizabeth]

:

You have kind of answered my question.

The following are a few more items to mention:

1. In answer to your questions, according to subversion, the open-source
version control software my company is using, I am using the current solution.
2. error 1- you are correct, I am I doing a subset of projects and not
compiling the entire solution first. What difference does it make if I
compile just one of the projects or the entire solution? Why would I need to
compile the entire solution first and then compile a project by itself? For
now, I am just trying to see if I could get anything to compile clean at
first.
3. Are you doing Project Reference for each project? I do not know what
you mean by this? Is this part of a a class manager configuration file? Can
you tell me how to do a 'project reference' for each project?
4. Since I checked out this code from subversion, can you tell me how I can
find the dll that some 'project files' are looking for?

Thank you very much!

 

[Wendy Elizabeth]

"Peter Duniho":

You have kind of answered my question.

The .net solution I have, I obtained from a subversion 'version control'
open-source that my small company uses. I just checked out the .net solution
to my desktop.
I know that I need to add some dll refernces, but I need to be able to
figure out where the DLL are located at. By the name of the DLL files, I know
that I have
the various namespaces I could use and compile. Where you do think the dlls
would be located at? Would they be in the debug/bin directory or the
release/bin directory?

I know that one of the there is at least one 'custom' control that have
been included in several of the projects in the solution. Do you have any
ideas on how I could find the custom control, build them and then add them as
a reference to the various projects?

Thanks!

[...]
I know that the program would compile without the proxies but I can tell
from the code that I will to use proxies like this.
Thus can you tell me how to resolve this problem.

The error messages a fairly clear, and since none of us have access to
the actual solution file and/or whatever libraries you may be trying to
use, there's no way to provide any specific instructions.

The bottom line is that, as the errors suggest, you appear to have not
included the necessary library or libraries corresponding to the types
you want to use, and possibly also are trying to use unqualified type
names without having the necessary "using" directives to import the
namespace(s) for the types.

Once you look at what libraries are actually required and the types
you're using, you should be able to add the necessary references to the
project and/or the necessary "using" directives to the source files.

Note that if you have simply attempted to copy a solution from
somewhere, you may have failed to include all the necessary libraries
it's dependent on. It may not be possible to fix the problems until you
track down the libraries you need and include them with your solution or
at least somewhere they can be used.

Pete
.

 

[Wendy Elizabeth]

Are you sure you have the latest code for this application?

Usually when you get the error #1, it means that a project is missing,
the project is there but the code is not up to date for other projects
that are making references to the project.

Are you running out of memory, which can make the compiler not load all
of the code during the compile?

Are you trying to compile the entire application (all the projects) or a
subset of projects based on a solution (.sln) file? If doing a subset of
projects and not compiling the entire solution first will lead to error #1.

Have you looked at the solution tree in the IDE, expanded the
(References) for each project to see what is missing?

Are you doing Project Reference for each project?

.

 

[Mr. Arnold]

:

You have kind of answered my question.

The following are a few more items to mention:

1. In answer to your questions, according to subversion, the open-source
version control software my company is using, I am using the current solution.
Ok
2. error 1- you are correct, I am I doing a subset of projects and not
compiling the entire solution first. What difference does it make if I
compile just one of the projects or the entire solution? Why would I need to
compile the entire solution first and then compile a project by itself? For
now, I am just trying to see if I could get anything to compile clean at
first.

That's because if other programmers have made changes to projects added
or removed reference in other projects or changed code in other projects
that your code is reliant upon in a project, then you're going to get
the type of error messages you're seeing or your code may encounter an
exception and blow-up.

So, it's up to you to do a (Get Latest), assuming only valid and tested
code is being checked-in by other programmers that will not create
compile errors or exceptions, for all the code for the solution and
compile the entire solution first (periodically) or as needed to keep
the solution in sync, if doing subset compiling of projects for the
solution.

Otherwise, you are going to face the trouble you're facing when working
with a larger solution that has many projects in it and doing subset
project compiling -- (everything is not in sync, not up to date, not the
greatest and latest).

3. Are you doing Project Reference for each project? I do not know what
you mean by this? Is this part of a a class manager configuration file? Can
you tell me how to do a 'project reference' for each project?

That means you goto to each project in the IDE that has a reference to
another project or (projects) and set the reference to the referenced
project's project file (a projectname.csproj). Otherwise, that can cause
compile errors if a project is referencing a project (by the referenced
project's DLL) instead of using (Project Reference by project).

4. Since I checked out this code from subversion, can you tell me how I can
find the dll that some 'project files' are looking for?

If you're in the IDE and you're at a project, then expand the
"Reference" section. If you see the "yield sign symbol" next to a
reference line, then you know you may have problems with reference to a
DLL the project is using.

 

[Wendy Elizabeth]

:

You answered most of my extra questions but I still have a few more
additional questions based upon your last response which are:

1. This pertains to obtaining the 'latest version' subversion:
a. What do you do to obtain the 'latest' version in subversion? Are
there some commands you execute?
b. The subversion that the programmer used that checked this code in left
some time ago and this company had a different location for subversion. There
was some kind of a problem with the original location for subversion, so a
'new' network person at this company changed the location of the subversion I
checked out code from. Could using a different location for subversion cause
a problem? Should I go try to check out the code from the original location
where the code was checked into subversion?

2. Project Reference for each project
To add a project reference for each project, can could expand upon:
If you're in the IDE and you're at a project, then expand the

"Reference" section. If you see the "yield sign symbol" next to a
reference line, then you know you may have problems with reference to a
DLL the project is using.

Basically I would then select 'add a reference' by right clicking on the
situation listed above.. From the tabbed items I could select, I know there
are about four tabs like '.net', com, and two more tabbed items. Which tab
would I select? Once I pick the correct tab, would kind of an item would I
need to select to add the correct reference?

3. Is there a way to tell when a project should be referenced by the
referenced > project's DLL) and when the project should be referenced by
using (Project Reference by project)? If so, how can you tell this?

4. The following pertains to a dll:
a. Where would I look to obtain a few dll's that are missing in the
solution?
b. If I can not find some dll's, is there a way to tell what code in the
solution I should to use to compile (build) the dll (executable)?
C. Can you tell me how to compile the separate dll's and how to add the
separate dll's into the solution?

Your help has been one of the best I have ever seen for people! Thank you
again very much!

So you are saying each project has its own a projectname.csproj file? (I
was assuming that the entire solution had only one csproj file.)

 

[Mr. Arnold]

:

You answered most of my extra questions but I still have a few more
additional questions based upon your last response which are:

1. This pertains to obtaining the 'latest version' subversion:
a. What do you do to obtain the 'latest' version in subversion? Are
there some commands you execute?

It has to do with going to the code repository, I am sure you have
something, and getting the latest version of all the code out of the
repository. It has to do with you knowing how to work with the code
repository solution to accomplish it.

b. The subversion that the programmer used that checked this code in left
some time ago and this company had a different location for subversion. There
was some kind of a problem with the original location for subversion, so a
'new' network person at this company changed the location of the subversion I
checked out code from. Could using a different location for subversion cause
a problem? Should I go try to check out the code from the original location
where the code was checked into subversion?

It comes back to this. If this is the first time you have tried to
compile this solution, then you need to get the latest code/projects
(all of the projects -- all of the code) out of the repository and
compile the entire solution (all of it all of the projects) the first
time, before you can compile a subversion.

You have to compile the entire solution the first time, because if you
compile the subversion the first time, things will not be there that the
subversion of projects are looking for (references to other projects)
outside of the subversion of projects that will lead to compile errors
for the subversion.

If you have not done this, then you have to do it. You can't go to the
subversion initially and compile it, because those projects may be
looking for references to other projects that are outside the subversion
and they are not there (DLL's) compiled from other projects referenced
are not there physically on your development machine.

2. Project Reference for each project
To add a project reference for each project, can could expand upon:
If you're in the IDE and you're at a project, then expand the

Basically I would then select 'add a reference' by right clicking on the
situation listed above.. From the tabbed items I could select, I know there
are about four tabs like '.net', com, and two more tabbed items. Which tab
would I select? Once I pick the correct tab, would kind of an item would I
need to select to add the correct reference?

What path to take is based on what type of reference is needed. If its a
.NET Framework reference, the (.NET), if it's a 3rd party DLL, then
you need to 'Browse' to the location of the DLL you have on the machine,
and if it's by project reference, then you have to 'Browse' to the
location of the project file on the machine and use it.

3. Is there a way to tell when a project should be referenced by the
referenced > project's DLL) and when the project should be referenced by
using (Project Reference by project)? If so, how can you tell this?

None of the projects should be using a DLL for project reference. All
projects should be using (Project Reference). Because when you use
'Project Reference' the complier knows to go find the DLL for other
projects by itself without you needing to point to it yourself.

4. The following pertains to a dll:
a. Where would I look to obtain a few dll's that are missing in the
solution?

You have to determine what the DLL(s) are .Net Framework, 3rd party or
DLL created from compiling a project.

I would say your biggest problem may be is that you have not compiled
the entire solution first to get project DLL(s) on the machine before
you tried to compile a subversion of projects, because those projects
are looking for reference to projects outside the subversion that have
not been complied.

b. If I can not find some dll's, is there a way to tell what code in the
solution I should to use to compile (build) the dll (executable)?

Why bother? If this solution is one big solution of projects, then
compile the entire thing not the subversion or an individual project,
and it will work itself out.

C. Can you tell me how to compile the separate dll's and how to add the
separate dll's into the solution?

Take note on everything I have told you prior to this point.

Your help has been one of the best I have ever seen for people! Thank you
again very much!

So you are saying each project has its own a projectname.csproj file? (I
was assuming that the entire solution had only one csproj file.)

A solution has a main .sln file that holds all of the project for the
entire solution, and you can tell it to compiler to use the .sln file
and do the compile of all projects in the .sln.

You can have a .sln file that has a subversion of projects and any
common projects (core projects) that the subversion of projects have
reference to outside of the subversion of projects.

Maybe, you need a contractor in there for a short time to help you
figure this out and what you need to do.

HTH and good luck to you.....

 

[Wendy Elizabeth]

:

I want to mention the following:

1. To compile the big solution for the first time, I need to compile the
code outside of the 'subversion' version control software? Basically, I would
need to get out all
references to the 'subversion' source control for the first time?
2. All the code is in subversion source control, so I need to get all the
code initially
from that location.
3. Should I look at 'subversion' source control 'help' on the internet to
see why I lose references to projects within in the same solution? Basically
should I look at the 'subversion' version control online help to see the time
of items that can be lost when a .net solution is checked in and how to solve
the problem?

You are probably right that I may need a contractor for a short period of
time to help me.

Thanks!

 

[Mr. Arnold]

:

I want to mention the following:

1. To compile the big solution for the first time, I need to compile the
code outside of the 'subversion' version control software? Basically, I would
need to get out all
references to the 'subversion' source control for the first time?

Including the subversions and compile it all at onetime.

You are probably right that I may need a contractor for a short period of
time to help me.

I would suggest that you go back to your boss and tell he or she that
you need some hands on guidance from an experienced contractor that has
worked with a large multiple projects solution.