We have recently added AppFabric as a caching option in our project (Windows server version, not Azure cloud). The project thus now has a dependancy on Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching.Client.dll and .Core.dll.
Our build server is Windows 2003 and thus AppFabric cache cannot be installed onto it, thus these assemblies are not available.
Short of including the afore mentioned assemblies as explicit binaries in our SVN repository, and referencing them directly (yuck), are there any suggestions as to how to build the project?
Secondly, if we checked in the binaries, performed the build then deleted them from the output folder, is there a way to force .NET to search the %windir%\system32\AppFabric\ folder for the assemblies?
MS do not register them in the GAC...
If your application is using an assembly that can't be installed on your build server, then the solution is to upgrade your build server to Windows 2008.