visual studio .net setup: Can't find .licenses file -- visual studio .net setup

Can't find .licenses file

aaron.m.johnson NO[at]SPAM gmail.com
3/9/2007 8:44:29 AM

visual studio .net setup:

My installer is giving me a host of warnings and failing on an error
about a .licenses file:

Building file 'C:\working\DM\Deployment\Release\DataMonitor.msi'...
WARNING: Two or more objects have the same target location
('[policydir]\8.0.50727.762.policy')
WARNING: Two or more objects have the same target location
('[policydir]\8.0.50727.762.policy')
WARNING: Two or more objects have the same target location
('[policydir]\8.0.50727.762.cat')
WARNING: Two or more objects have the same target location
('[policydir]\8.0.50727.762.cat')
WARNING: Two or more objects have the same target location
('[payload_ul]\8.0.50727.762.cat')
WARNING: Two or more objects have the same target location
('[payload_ul]\8.0.50727.762.cat')
WARNING: Two or more objects have the same target location
('[payload_ul]\8.0.50727.762.policy')
WARNING: Two or more objects have the same target location
('[payload_ul]\8.0.50727.762.policy')
ERROR: Could not find file 'c:\working\DM\Data Monitor\
[$OutputDirectory]\[$TargetAssembly].licenses' 'The system cannot find
the path specified.'

The warnings don't seem to be a huge problem, but the error is fatal.
The file it seems to be referencing exists at the given location
(assuming those tokens are getting resolved to where I think they
are). What's the deal here?

Re: Can't find .licenses file

aaron.m.johnson NO[at]SPAM gmail.com
3/9/2007 12:09:24 PM

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Well, I still have the warnings, but I got rid of the error by adding
a filter to the executable properties that removed the .licenses
file. It seems to work just fine without it.