Hi All,

So we have recently encountered a problem with building an sdlplugin for Trados 2024. We have a build server that periodically builds our app. Till this point everything worked perfectly. There is no Trados Studio installed, but we copied the referenced files to the right folders. We don't have Visual studio installed, but have Visual Studio Build Tools installed. With this setup everything worked perfectly in the past versions (~ so since Studio 2015 till Studio 2022). However with studio 2024 the sdlplugin file is not created when we call the "msbuild ....csproj" command. So every other file is created but the sdplugin file itself is missing.

Compared the 2024 plugin csproj file with the 2022 one, but no significant change was detected (so the PluginFramework is referenced, the right version is referenced 2.1.0 and 18.0.01), so we kinda stucked what is the problem. The only thing that comes into our mind that is the lack of the Trados Studio SDK cause the problem. So the VisualStudio extension that we install to include the project templates which is also mentioned at the link below. However what is disturbing in this situations is that, we haven't installed any previous version's SDK as well (as I mentioned no IDE is installed, just the buildtools, but without IDE the VSIX file cannot be installed). But it is possible we are on the wrong track in this issue.

Can you please help what changed in Studio 2024, which can cause this issue? Is the vsix is really required to build the plugin? 

Thanks in advance. 

SDK: developers.rws.com/.../setting_up_a_developer_machine.html