This might be simple operation.. but this is my first time working with a big solution file and adding files to a project
I have a class library project(say a user control library) within that is a part of a bigger solution with (about 100+ project) all of this is connected to TFS. As soon as I add a class file to the project, it checks out the project file and the file gets added, but then I notice a maximum number of errors exceed and that project build errors start showing up.
This might a real simple thing I am missing, but what is the best way to resolve this issue.
The issue I get is a lot of
- 'namesspace x 'not a member of 'y'
- Type namespace x' is not define.
x namesspace cannot be converted to y namespace.
and eventually, maximum number of errors exceeded.
This simple answer is to fix your namespaces or add the missing projects/references. Generally speaking the error you are talking about is due to the code not being able to locate certain dependencies - such as other class files.
This typically happens when you haven't added all of the relevant projects and/or references.
Related
I am following the steps of this page:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/composer/how-to-create-custom-actions
and have reached to the part where it is required to merge the two schemas: bots and your custom one. However when running the powershell script found inside the created project template (CoreAssistant template) I have the following error:
Error conflicting definitions of HelpDialog.dialog :
C:\Users\user\source\repos\AvanadeCoreAssistant\AvanadeCoreAssistant\dialogs\imported\Microsoft.Bot.Components.HelpAndCancel\HelpDialog\HelpDialog.dialog
Microsoft.Bot.Components.HelpAndCancel:
C:\Users\user.nuget\packages\microsoft.bot.components.helpandcancel\1.1.2\exported\HelpDialog\HelpDialog.dialog
Error conflicting definitions of HelpDialog.en-us.lu.dialog :
C:\Users\user\source\repos\AvanadeCoreAssistant\AvanadeCoreAssistant\dialogs\imported\Microsoft.Bot.Components.HelpAndCancel\HelpDialog\recognizers\HelpDialog.en-us.lu.dialog
Microsoft.Bot.Components.HelpAndCancel:
C:\Users\user.nuget\packages\microsoft.bot.components.helpandcancel\1.1.2\exported\HelpDialog\recognizers\HelpDialog.en-us.lu.dialog
Error conflicting definitions of HelpDialog.lu.dialog
HelpDialog is a predefined dialog that was already present. I have installed NodeJs and #botframework-cli package because it was required from the powershell script in order to run bf dialog:merge and now it seems these two sources have some kind of conflict.
To add to other answers, changes that worked for me are as follows:
update-schema.ps1, line 11, change "!**/generated" to "!../generated" and add "!../dialogs/imported"
Also, make sure that your custom action project is INSIDE of your bot directory, it should be a folder next to the "schemas" folder for the script to find it.
Note/Edit: Having the project nested inside the bot works to get the script working, though I do not recommend it due to causing other errors. Oddly, I found it was best to move the whole custom solution up a level, next to the bot project. You may have to edit the [botName].sln file in notepad to reference the location of the project, as well as editing the bot project's project reference.
I fixed it by changing the script. I noticed the script was trying to ignore the folder imported and generated but the error message indicated it was not doing so. So I changed it from !**/generated to !../generated.
I experienced the same issue.
To fix this problem you could simply delete the corresponding dialogs in the "imported" folder. Note that this will, however, delete these dialogs in your bot, which is not optimal but should be of little concern for a sample application.
I have a cucumber feature file 'A' that serves as setting up environment (data clean up and initialization). I want to have it executed before all other feature files can run.
It's it kind of like #before hook as in http://zsoltfabok.com/blog/2012/09/cucumber-jvm-hooks/. However, that does not work because my feature files 'A' contains hundreds of cucumber steps and it is not as simple as:
#Before
public void beforeScenario() {
tomcat.start();
tomcat.deploy("munger");
browser = new FirefoxDriver();
}
instead it's better to be able to run 'A' as a feature file as a whole.
I've searched around but did not find a answer. I am so surprised that no one has this type of requirement before.
The closest i found is 'background'. But that means i can have only one huge feature file with the content of 'A' as 'background' at the top, and rest of my test in the same file. I really do not want to do that.
Any suggestions?
By default, Cucumber features are run single thread in order by:
Alphabetically by feature file directory
Alphabetically by feature file name within directory
Scenario execution is then by order within the feature file.
So have your initialization feature in the first directory (alhpabetically) with a file name that sorts first (alphabetically) in that directory.
That being said it is generally a bad practice to require an execution order in your feature files. We run our feature files in parallel so order is meaningless. For Jenkins or TeamCity you could add a build step that executes the one feature file followed by a second build step that executes the rest of your feature files.
I have also a project, where we have a single feature file, that contains a very long scenario called Scenario: Test data with a lot of very long scenarios, like this:
Given the system knows about the following employees
|uuid|user-key|name|nickname|
|1|0101140000|Anna|annie|
... hundreds of lines like this follow ...
We see this long SystemKnows scenarios as quite valuable, so that our testers, Product Owner and developers have a baseline of what data are in the system. Our domain is quite complex, and we need this baseline of reference data for everyone to be able to understand the tests.
(These reference data become almost like well known personas, and are a shared team metaphore)
In the beginning, we were relying on the alphabetic naming convention, to have the AAA.feature to be run first.
Later, we discovered that this setup was brittle, and decided to use the following trick, inspired by the PageObject pattern:
Add a background with the single line Given(~'^I set test data for all feature files$')
In the step definition, have a factory to create the test data, and make sure inside the factore method, that it is only created once, like testFactory.createTestData()
In this way, you have both the convenience of expressing reference setup as a scenario, that enhances team communication, but you also have a stable test setup.
Hope this is helpful!
Agata
I am going to use Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf (Version: 2010.1.700 from 26 March 2010) to prepare some reports but unfortunately Sometimes when i want to create a new data source,an error is appeared saying :
Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.
An unhandled exception of type 'System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException' occurred in mscorlib.dll
last time that i saw this thing , i didn't do anything special about it.surprisingly it was fixed by itself.But this time it seems it is not going to work.
i have searched the internet 1000 of times but i didn't find anything useful.
what should i do to fix it ?
I Have this problem too. i install some font that was used in report. this problem solved.
or may be because of application cant find stimul soft reports needed dll files.
if reports call from another class library project.
if main exe file and class library report caller has different physical path in windows you have to copy stimulsoft report files into main exe file path and also into report caller dll path too.
I have a VS2012 solution, containing 10 projects, and suddenly, I can no longer publish my Services project to any folder.
When I try to publish to D:\temp, I get this error:
The expression "[System.IO.Path]::GetFullPath(obj\Release%25252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252528Prod%25252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252529\)" cannot be evaluated. The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters. C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v11.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets
Huh ?
VS2012 (with update 4) seems to have taken my configuration name "Release(Prod)" and completely messed it up, causing the GetFullPath to produce too long a path name.
How the heck can I fix this ?
Out of desperation, I tried to build and publish the same project in VS2013 - and it had the same error message.
One of my colleagues said he'd seen the same thing, but had fixed it by removing the spaces from his configuration name. I tried this, which is why my configuration name is now "Release(Prod)" rather than "Release (Prod)", but it made no difference.
I did also open the file which this error is suggesting is the cause of the error:
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v11.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets
..and noticed that there's something in there concerning the AnyCPU platform name. I have tried getting my Services project to use "AnyCPU" and "Any CPU" (depressed sigh) but neither seems to make any difference.
<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(IntermediateOutputPath)' == '' ">
<IntermediateOutputPath Condition=" '$(PlatformName)' == 'AnyCPU' Or '$(PlatformName)' == ''">$(BaseIntermediateOutputPath)$(Configuration)\</IntermediateOutputPath>
. . .
</PropertyGroup>
Has anyone else seen this issue ?
(A little bit later..)
This is so odd (and frustrating).
My Solution has 5 configurations - the default Debug and Release ones, plus extra configurations for Test, PreProduction and Production environments.
If I select any of these three configurations containing brackets, I get this ridiculous "The specified path is too long" error, as VS2012 corrupts the pathname (as shown in my first screenshot above).
I can't help wondering... is this some kind of VS2012 bug, handling spaces or brackets in the configuration name ?
I can deploy to a path directly with (, (, )) in the Target Location on tyhe Connection tab when publishing to the file system (i.e. not building a path from the configuration name) - but that is not a solution to targeting different locations based on the Configuration.
If you want to keep special characters in the configuration name, but specify a path to the deployment folder that will not cause and issue this post might help: Visual Studio: How to properly build and specify the configurations and platforms for x64 and x86
Specifically play with the settings in here:
In the project properties page, select the various permutations of
Debug/Release and x86/x64 in the solution dropdowns. Make sure the
target processor is set correctly (it should be, but I found instances
when they were not, probably because of my previous attempts). Also,
set the output directory. That should be okay and automatic
(/bin/x86/Debug, etc.). If not, fix.
Looking at what is actually seems to be going on is also potentially useful:
Looking at the numbers inserted:
%25 is an encoded %,
%28 is an encoded (
%29 is an encoded )
Looking at the path:
obj\Release%252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525***28***Prod%252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525***29***)
What I think is happening:
So that seems like a good clue that these are being URL or XML encoded. What appears to be happening is that the ( is being encoded as %28 and then the % is being recursively encoded as %25 - generating an infinite %252525252525252525....
A more interesting question is actually why it stops creating 25's from the %'s with this bug (both times it stops creating 25's at 214 characters including the % and the 28 / 29 - not a very interesting number).
Looking at the file C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v11.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets you reference - it makes sense that these strings are being encoded for XML. I would say this is definitely a bug... I have no suggestions for a fix.
Well, I'm going to accept Matthew's answer as the "Accepted Answer".
Thank you for your help.
This is a really odd problem though, and I'm amazed no one else has reported this elsewhere.
Summary of problem (in case Microsoft is interested, or if anyone tries to Google this issue in the coming years)
With a configuration name of "Release (Prod)", I could happily build my code, run it locally, but when I tried to publish it, even to a local drive, I'd get this message:
It's an odd exception, because the Build did create the "obj\Release (Prod)" folder, without any issues. It's just the Publish which seemed to be looking in the wrong place for it.
Following the advice given in this thread, today I attempted to create a new configuration, with the same settings, but without a space in the name: "Release(SecondProd)". Look what happens:
Interestingly, despite this error, it did create a new configuration with this name.
Anyway, I recreated a new configuration, called it ReleaseProduction, and it worked fine.
Of course, I needed to create new "web.config" Transformation for this name, as this doesn't get automatically copied when you create a new configuration based on an old one.
One last thought (just to confuse matters worse !)
When I posted this plea-for-help, the Services project in my Solution refused to publish to a local drive, but my web site would publish okay.
Today, two days since I last attempted a website Publish, I found that the website also now produces the same GetFullPath exception. Nothing's changed ! We use TFS, I have done a file compare with my project files today against two days ago, and they're identical !
It's a really bizarre bug in VS2012 & VS2013.
Btw, this solution & the projects in it, were originally a VS2010 project. They were upgraded to VS2012 over a year ago, but this Publish problem only started happening recently. I'm not sure if the problem is related to using upgraded VS projects.
Again, thanks for your help.
Now I have some Test, PreProd & Production configurations to recreate !
Maybe I'll grab a beer first..
Summarizing and completing Matthew's answer:
Cause: You have configurations with chars that require URI-encoding - in your case, '(' and ')'.
Workaround: Rename those configs.
What happens: Presumably web deploy URI-encodes the path, replacing % => %25, ( => %28, ) => %29. It does so over and over:
obj\Release(Prod)
obj\Release%28Prod%29
obj\Release%2528Prod%2529
obj\Release%252528Prod%252529
...
Until the path exceeds MAX_PATH=260.
I ran into the same thing and all though it does not resolve the issue I found that if I switch the solution configuration away from a build containing "(" or ")"
Then use the appropriate build in the publish dialog it will not error out.
I have a project structure like -
proj_Main
proj_A(directory)
somefile.cs(etc.)
proj_A.csproj
proj_B(dir)
somefile.cs
proj_B.csproj
proj_C(dir)
somefile.cs
proj_C.csproj
proj_D(dir)
somefile.cs
proj_D.csproj
proj_Main(dir)
other dirs etc.
some.cs files
proj_Main.csproj
proj_Main.csproj.user
proj_Main2010.csproj
proj_Main2010.csproj.user
proj_Main2010.v11.suo
proj_A.sln
proj_B.sln
proj_C.sln
proj_D.sln
proj_Main.sln
proj_Main2010.sln
(There are actually more than 10 solutions inside it, to keep it simple, I have depicted 4 above.)
While opening it in VS 2012 I have opened proj_Main2010.sln and it shows other linked projects with it, opens them inside the solution. This proj_Main refers the dll of other projects from those other projects. So far fine.
Now I have to modify the code from all project files, but if I do that, the previously referenced classes and code stops working, and throws errors of all sort -
Error 2 The type or namespace name 'XXXX' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
I am not sure, If this is the correct way to depict the scenario, my apologies for that.
My problem is, I am not sure If I am opening the right file to work on this solution or if I am trying to modify the files safely.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
p.s. I also have a setup project in it ( but I guess its related to deploying an application not useful while developing /redeveloping it)