licenses.licx problems for multiple developers

[ferguslogic]

Guys,

We just started using VS 2005 and Vault and we just encountered the infamous "licenses.licx" checkout isue of which these are the details:

Two or more developers cannot work on windows forms at the same time when using VS 2005 with source control. The problem is that licenses.licx has to be checked out when you edit a form and that prevents any other developer from editing a form because they cannot checkout licenses.licx

I was wondering how everybody is working around this right now with Vault. Is there a suggested work around? I am in Ohio and I have a developer in Seattle and we are unable to work on the GUI portion of our app right now due to this problem.

references about problem

http://www.mayvelous.com/?p=349

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPo ... 9&SiteID=1

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStud ... kID=123332

[Beth]

Have you tried an Exclude from source control and just having that file on disk?

In VS2003, another user had the same issue: http://support.sourcegear.com/viewtopic.php?t=3068.

One other thing you could try is adding *.licx to the mergeable files list and then don't use exclusive checkouts (there's a setting in the Admin tool as well as the clients).

[ferguslogic]

Right now I basically made my copy writable on my local system and let my other developer checkin/checkout the file. Annnnd I am basically just praying right now. Can you enable multiple check out for just 1 file?

[Beth]

If you change the settings in the Admin tool, it applies for all.

[Beth]

There are users who are not Gold Support who might be interested in stating their case on this issue as well.