Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition: Error „lc.exe exited with code -1“

Question

I try to use an old VS project with an external assembly.

I read that lc.exe is for licensing of external assemblies and most likely the license is no longer valid. I tried to install a trial of the external assembly, but the problem is still the same.

This error is quite common: How to fix build error in Visual Studio: '"LC.exe" exited with code -1' and many other google results tell to delete the licenses.licx file which will be regenerated during the next build – it is not regenerated during build in my project.

Is there any more detailed report of LC.exe then "error code -1"?

I have no idea how to handle this error.

EDIT:

The more detailed error is:

"licenses.licx(1): error LC0003: Unable to resolve type '', ''

where '', '' are the names of the components which I installed as a trial.

Answer 1

The solution I found is to throw the old 'licenses.licx' file out. I do this by manually deleting the file in the "Properties" folder of my project and removing the line referencing it in the *.csproj-file.

Look at this blog-post here .