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Oopsie, Visual Studio License expired, so the build server stopped working (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Oh no, not just my build server, Microsofts build server... Everyones' Azure build server - (if you're building on windows)

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It's not using just the compiler. This agent is configured to use the full version of Visual Studio for some reason, and building through that, which requires a license. You can build via the msbuild system, which doesn't require a license.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It gets worse if you use Microsoft D365 AX products. Then you have to provision an entire Build server for builds which has to run Visual Studio 2019 on Windows 10. To do a build you run a pipeline in Azure DevOps, which runs the compiler in a full Visual Studio 2019 environment, which has to run on a special Azure virtual environment running Windows 10 hosted by Microsoft. It's so fragile.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

typical Azure. duct tape and bubble gum holding everything together