The other day I was about to build some tiny K2 test project using old-fashioned thick designer UI K2 Studio which I still prefer to use whenever I need to build some little K2 process. Unfortunately I bumped into this error:
Error message politely informs us about this:
Method not found: ‘Microsoft. Build. BuildEngine
BuildItem SourceCode. ProjectSystem. ProjectBuildItem
get_BuildItem()’.
That’s not very obvious, right? But, trust me it just complains that some DLL is not properly added to GAC, or there is a mismatch between DLL version in GAC and in some other location.
Solution? If you run K2 environment without coldfixes just run a Repair from installation media. But most likely you’ve applied some coldfix recently. Verify if files which supposed to go to GAC were added to that location correctly. Remember that some files go to K2 installation directory, while some others may go to “[Program Files]Reference Assemblies\SourceCode\v4.0\” and into GAC v4, i.e. into “C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL\”. In my case the error was caused by the fact that SourceCode.Workflow.Authoring.dll assembly was not updated in GACv4.
When something wrong with aforementioned DLL you will also see the same error when trying to deploy something with PnD:
So in case you getting this type of error you know what to check now.