Build error with JustMock (commercial)

I'm using NCrunch 2.14.0.8 and am getting an NCrunch build error on my project.

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OrderServiceTests.cs (5, 7): The type or namespace name 'Telerik' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

WARNING - ..\..\..\..\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\12.0\bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets (1697, 5): Could not resolve this reference. Could not locate the assembly "Telerik.JustMock". Check to make sure the assembly exists on disk. If this reference is required by your code, you may get compilation errors.

My JustMock version is 2015.1.224.3

I'm using VS 2013

I'm running on Win 8.1 pro 64 bit.

Any suggestions?

Hi, thanks for posting.

Are you able to check where the Telerik.JustMock is normally referenced within your VS build? Is it perhaps being hooked up through a Nuget package of some sort? I'm wondering if it's possible that NCrunch has somehow been unable to detect the dependency when it needs to be copied to the workspace.

Hello, thanks for the reply. I'm not using nugget. The dll is just a reference added with browsing to the installation library folder:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Telerik\JustMock\Libraries\Telerik.JustMock.dll

I just created a new test project with the Telerik template and NCrunch is working with that one. I'll have to do more digging into the project that isn't working.

Try setting your 'Log Verbosity' (global NCrunch setting) to 'Detailed', then examine the build log against the Build Task inside the NCrunch Processing Queue.

This may give you some useful information about where the build system is looking for assembly references.

NCrunch won't try to copy DLLs from Program Files into its workspace - it will just reference them directly. If you can compare a build log from NCrunch with a build log from MSBuild, this may give you some useful clues about how the referencing logic for this assembly is behaving differently. To obtain a detailed build log from MSBuild, just open a command prompt to the directory containing the project, then type:

msbuild /v:d > BuildLog.txt

You may also need to set the path to MSBuild. Usually this will be under C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\12.0\Bin

I looked at the differences between the working and non-working projects and found the following in the csproj file:

Non-working:
<Reference Include="Telerik.JustMock">
<HintPath>..\..\..\..\Program Files (x86)\Telerik\JustMock\Libraries\Telerik.JustMock.dll</HintPath>
</Reference>

Working:
<Reference Include="Telerik.JustMock">
<HintPath>$(registry:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Telerik\JustMock@BinaryPath)Telerik.JustMock.dll</HintPath>
</Reference>

It looks like the Telerik template uses the registry lookup which works. I changed this in the bad project and now it works fine.

Excellent, thanks! I can understand how this is happening. I'll see if there's anything I can do about it from the NCrunch side. I appreciate you sharing the solution as I'm sure that others will also find it helpful.