How licenses.licx file is used

c# visual-studio msbuild cruisecontrol.net
CharithJ picture CharithJ · Apr 12, 2011 · Viewed 56k times · Source

I've got licenses.licx file that is included to one of my projects properties. I am not sure how that is used by its dlls. Is it used by msbuild? Do you have any idea how it is used when the solution is building?

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Richard J Foster picture Richard J Foster · Apr 18, 2011

Since you indicate that StellarEleven's reply doesn't help, I guess you're looking for something even simpler. This is probably not 100% correct, but it is my understanding of how this works:

The licx file is simply a list of the "licensed" components used by your application.

Each line in the file is of the following format:

[Component Name], [Assembly Name]

For example one of my projects uses the licensed IP Works NetDial component so my .licx file contains the following line:

nsoftware.IPWorks.Netdial, nsoftware.IPWorks

In the context of the project (.csproj) file, the .licx file is referenced as an EmbeddedResource. During the build process, LC.exe verifies that the machine performing the build has the appropriate license(s) for the component in question, and generates a binary .licenses file which eventually gets embedded as a resource ([AssemblyName].exe.licenses) in the final executable.

Does this help?

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