Miroslav Floch 

In addition to what Patrick said can you confirm what you are actually trying to achieve?  What does your application do and how/who are you distributing it to?

Patrick Andrew Hartnett 

Hi Patrick, Paul,

I am trying to develop a tool to create multiple statistics within a project. Actually I do not think about any distribution (if any it would be targeted inside our company only). Note, I have a valid licence, .NET framework 4.8 and all needed sw to run my tool with trados API. But still an error message appears about licensing (SDL.ProjectAutomation.FileBased. LicensingException)

Patrick Andrew Hartnett 

Hi Miroslav Floch ,

let's step back and walk through the process, to help me understand your setup:

1. You have Trados Studio installed (with a professional license) on the machine that you are using for plugin development, correct?
2. You implement the API's with your plugin or standalone development project by making reference to the assemblies from the installed location of Trados Studio, correct?

Can you also confirm if you building a plugin integration with Trados Studio or a standalone application?  If you are creating a standalone application, then remember that it would need to be installed in the same location as the Trados Studio installation.  You cannot simply copy the binaries from the installed product to another folder and expect it to work, as each of the API's have multiple dependencies.

Miroslav Floch said:

And last question: What files have to be carried with main application to be working with Trados Studio API? or any reference pointing to Trados files so I have't to have hundrets files packed together with main app.

You should not package any of the SDK/API assemblies with you plugin.  The computer that installs or uses your plugin or Standalone project should also have a licensed version of Trados Studio installed.

Hi Miroslav Floch ,

let's step back and walk through the process, to help me understand your setup:

1. You have Trados Studio installed (with a professional license) on the machine that you are using for plugin development, correct?
2. You implement the API's with your plugin or standalone development project by making reference to the assemblies from the installed location of Trados Studio, correct?

Can you also confirm if you building a plugin integration with Trados Studio or a standalone application?  If you are creating a standalone application, then remember that it would need to be installed in the same location as the Trados Studio installation.  You cannot simply copy the binaries from the installed product to another folder and expect it to work, as each of the API's have multiple dependencies.

Miroslav Floch said:

And last question: What files have to be carried with main application to be working with Trados Studio API? or any reference pointing to Trados files so I have't to have hundrets files packed together with main app.

You should not package any of the SDK/API assemblies with you plugin.  The computer that installs or uses your plugin or Standalone project should also have a licensed version of Trados Studio installed.

Hi Patrick,

1, 2 - correct. I am developing a standalone application - statistics should be created based on a selected project, which will hold multiple filenames linked to specific subproject.

Hi Miroslav Floch ,

What is the output folder of your project; where are you bulding your execuatable file?

Note: If you are building a standalone project, then the easist solution would be to set the output folder to the installation folder of Trados Studio (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\SDL\SDL Trados Studio\Studio15), so that your application can locate the dependencies.  Then you don't need to worry about including/packaging dependencies with your project.

Hi Patrick,

still can not run my app. The output path is set to my Trados installation, .NET framework is set to 4.8, 32bit support and all needed references.

Hi Miroslav Floch , are you getting the same license exception or something different, after you changed your project output folder to point to the studio installation directory?

Hi Patrick, this is the same exception. Trying all possible things, but no success...

After some time, still no solution. Seems to be some wrong setting of VS because the app does not see any references, but on the other side the debug folder is created under "Studio4" folder. So, please check the settings if correct or something needs to be added:

Target framework = .NET Framework 4.8

Platform target = x86

Base Ouput Path = c:\Program Files (x86)\SDL\SDL Trados Studio\Studio4\

Working Directory = C:\Program Files (x86)\SDL\SDL Trados Studio\Studio4 (Debug\General)

If I add "AssemblyResolver.Resolve()" the "Target" variable is set to null.