Building the DropThings ASP.NET Solution

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Question

I'm attempting to build a project called DropThings but I am getting all these errors and I'm not sure how to resolve them. Can anyone lend a helping hand? I'm wondering if anyone else can build the website and if so, what steps it took you. Thanks in advance!


Source Code: http://code.google.com/p/dropthings/

My Configuration:

Visual Studio 2008 SP1
SQL 2005 (with the database loaded + Web.Config file configured)
Microsoft Silverlight Projects 2008

Errors:

Error File Metadata file '...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\DashboardDataAccess\bin\Debug\Dropthings.DataAccess.dll' could not be found.
...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\DashboardBusiness Build failed due to validation errors in ...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\DashboardDataAccess\DropthingsDataContext.dbml. Open the file and resolve the issues in the Error List, then try rebuilding the project.
...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\DashboardDataAccess\DropthingsDataContext.dbml Metadata file '...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\DashboardBusiness\bin\Debug\Dropthings.Business.dll' could not be found.
...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\Dropthings.Business.Activities Metadata file '...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\DashboardDataAccess\bin\Debug\Dropthings.DataAccess.dll' could not be found.
...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\Dropthings.Business.Activities Metadata file '...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\Dropthings.Business.Activities\bin\Debug\Dropthings.Business.Activities.dll' could not be found.
...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\Dropthings.Business.Workflows Metadata file '...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\DashboardBusiness\bin\Debug\Dropthings.Business.dll' could not be found.
...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\Dropthings.Business.Workflows Metadata file '...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\DashboardDataAccess\bin\Debug\Dropthings.DataAccess.dll' could not be found. ...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\Dropthings.Business.Workflows Metadata file '...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\DashboardDataAccess\bin\Debug\Dropthings.DataAccess.dll' could not be found Dropthings.Widget.Framework Metadata file '...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\DashboardBusiness\bin\Debug\Dropthings.Business.dll' could not be found. ...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\Dropthings.Business.Facade Metadata file '...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\DashboardDataAccess\bin\Debug\Dropthings.DataAccess.dll' could not be found. ...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\Dropthings.Business.Facade Metadata file '...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\DashboardDataAccess\bin\Debug\Dropthings.DataAccess.dll' could not be found Dropthings.Web.Framework Metadata file '...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\Dropthings.Business.Workflows\bin\Debug\Dropthings.Business.Workflows.dll' could not be found Dropthings.Web.Framework Metadata file '...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\Dropthings.Business.Activities\bin\Debug\Dropthings.Business.Activities.dll' could not be found Dropthings.Web.Framework Metadata file '...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\Dropthings.Widget.Framework\bin\Debug\Dropthings.Widget.Framework.dll' could not be found Dropthings.Web.Framework Metadata file '...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\Dropthings.Business.Facade\bin\Debug\Dropthings.Business.Facade.dll' could not be found Dropthings.Web.Framework Metadata file '...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\DashboardBusiness\bin\Debug\Dropthings.Business.dll' could not be found Dropthings.Web.Framework The type or namespace name 'Framework' does not exist in the namespace 'Dropthings.Web' (are you missing an assembly reference?) ...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\Dropthings\web.config

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Solution

It could possibly be the hardcoded connection string in the dbml file:

ConnectionString="Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename="F:\Ilias Vai\Dropthings\trunk\src\Dropthings\App_Data\dropthings.mdf";Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True"

You're getting a build error on that:

..\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\DashboardBusiness Build failed due to validation errors in ...\Dropthings-v2.2.0\src\DashboardDataAccess\DropthingsDataContext.dbml. Open the file and resolve the issues in the Error List, then try rebuilding the project.

So you probably need to fix that connectionString to point your local MDF file (assuming you're using SQLEXPRESS) or a database.

OTHER TIPS

Check project's references.

Check that the .dll referenced by Dropthings are all present.

Take a look at the deploy version on GoogleCode which should work as-is.

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