Could not transform licenses file into a binary resource

Question

I have my old Web Applicatoin, developed in .Net Framework 2.0. Now i am trying to open it in VS2012 and it give me below error..

Could not transform licenses file into a binary resource.  (1) : error LC0004 :
Exception occurred creating type 'Infragistics.WebUI.WebDataInput.WebDateTimeEdit, 
Infragistics.WebUI.WebDataInput.v5.1, Version=5.1.20051.37, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7dd5c3163f2cd0cb System.ComponentModel.LicenseException: 
Unable to locate license assembly.at System.ComponentModel.LicenseManager.CreateWithContext(Type type, LicenseContext creationContext, Object[] args)
at System.Tools.LicenseCompiler.GenerateLicenses(String fileContents, String targetPE, ITypeResolutionService resolver, DesigntimeLicenseContext ctx)'

Answer 1

Good afternoon,

This happened for me when we had branched a solution (svn) to be used to patch production should the need arise. When I built the solution from the branch, it gave me a similar error, talking about index based (zero) blah blah blah.. it turns out there was a blank line on my .licx file which was causing the error. Deleting the blank line fixed the issue.

Just posting in case this helps anyone else.

Update 2022-11-11: This no longer works for me in VS 2022. I now have to open the solution in VS 2019, empty the contents of that file and rebuild the solution, put the contents back and rebuild again. After doing that, I'm able to do a "Rebuild" in VS 2022. Please let me know if anyone finds a better solution to this, as I don't intend to keep VS 2019 on my machine forever =)

Regards,

Answer 2

I have deleted the licenses file, and it worked for me