Ranorex Forum

I have installed Ranorex 5.3 and .NET 4.5.2
OS: WIN7
Should the .NET Runtime Version be shown 4.5.x ?

Should I be able to select Target Framework: . NET Framework 4.5 ?

I get this warning:
The reference assemblies for framework ".NETFramework,Version=v4.5" were not found. To resolve this, install the SDK or Targeting Pack for this framework version or retarget your application to a version of the framework for which you have the SDK or Targeting Pack installed. Note that assemblies will be resolved from the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) and will be used in place of reference assemblies. Therefore your assembly may not be correctly targeted for the framework you intend.
(link does not work). Is there something wrong in my environment?

I have a AUT that needs .NET 4.5.x and have now problem tracking.

Ranorex does not support versions of .NET higher than 4.0. This is because Ranorex is built on SharpDevelop 3.2, which also does not support .NET higher than 4.0. It will not even recognize that you have 4.5 installed.

krstcs wrote:Ranorex does not support versions of .NET higher than 4.0.

Sorry, but this is not 100% correct. Ranorex does both support automation of applications developed with .NET 4.5 and also supports targeting the .NET 4.5 framework with Ranorex Studio.

However, the .NET 4.5 SDK is not part of the .NET 4.5 runtime installation package, so you have to download and install it separately.
As soon as you have the SDK installed, the .NET Framework 4.5 should be available in the Compiling options of your Ranorex project.

krstcs wrote:This is because Ranorex is built on SharpDevelop 3.2

This is correct and that is also why the code editor does not support highlighting of new language features delivered with C# 5.0 (which is part of .NET 4.5), like the "await" keyword.

SanMan wrote:I have a AUT that needs .NET 4.5.x and have now problem tracking.

The .NET SDK should not be needed for automating .NET 4.5 applications. Could it be that this is rather a security limitation? Please, make sure that Ranorex is started with the same (or higher) privileges as the AUT.
Please try starting the standalone Ranorex Spy (not within Ranorex Studio) as Administrator.

Regarding the .NET Runtime Version displayed in the screenshot SanMan posted:
The version of the .NET Runtime did not change with the .NET 4.5 runtime framework, it is still 4.0.
Yeah, I know, the .NET version numbers are really misleading

Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Team

Alex,

Thank you for the clarification, however, I have found that .NET 4.5 is not fully supported by the IDE, regardless of whether it can be compiled or not by MSBuild, therefore it isn't supported in Ranorex Studio. I have found that multi-threaded and asynchronous logic (Note: not referring to STA/MTA) in 4.5 are not supported in Ranorex. I had to go back to 4.0, not because of auto-complete but because it didn't work.

Until 4.5 is fully supported I would hesitate to use 4.5 with Ranorex, but that is my opinion.

krstcs wrote:I have found that .NET 4.5 is not fully supported by the IDE, regardless of whether it can be compiled or not by MSBuild, therefore it isn't supported in Ranorex Studio

You are absolutely right, the IDE does not fully support .NET 4.5. You can target and compile code for .NET 4.5, but that's pretty much it.

krstcs wrote:I had to go back to 4.0, not because of auto-complete but because it didn't work.

Could you please clarify what did not work in particular apart from auto-complete?
I would like to add all required features for .NET 4.5 and C# 5.0 support to our internal data base. Thank you!

Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Team

Alex,

I was using asynchronous programming to get data from a web service, and Ranorex would not compile when using await. I found a slightly different way to do it while still using 4.0, so it works now.

At this point I'm not to worried about it because my current code is working well.

krstcs wrote:...and Ranorex would not compile when using await.

OK, that's weird. Anyway, when we (finally) fully support .NET 4.5 also in the Ranorex Studio IDE, we will definitely make sure that the code also compiles

Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Team

Hi,

we have installed Ranorex 6.0.0 and .Net Framework 4.5.2.

In the Ranorex-usercode we want to use our referenced company-Framework, which is built with .Net Framework 4.5.2.

Is there any reason why Ranorex 6.0.0 obviously doesn't suppoert the .Net Framwork 4.5.2 - as can be seen in the ranorex-project-properties in the "Compiling"-tab under "Target Framework" - "Change target framework" ?

Do you guys know any workarounds to make Ranorex support .Net Framework 4.5.2?

Best regards,
Dominik

Hello Dominik,

This is a known issue in Ranorex 6.0 and there is already a feature request in our internal bug-tracking system. Currently, we do not know if and when this feature will be implemented. This depends on various factors. Nevertheless, all reported bugs and feature requests are documented in the release notes, with every new version release of Ranorex.

As a workaround you could modify the target framework version in the projects file (*.csproj) manually by using any text editor. Unfortunately, as a side effect you will get an exception when opening the Compiling tab in the project settings.

I hope this information will help you.

Sincerely,
Johannes

Which Framework version is supported by Ranorex Studio 4.0?

Hi,

I believe the highest supported .Net version in Ranorex 4.x is 4.0 (the same SharpDevelop limitation as in 5.x). Anyway, Ranorex 4.x is long time dead horse I can see no good reason to use such old version? You will not be able to use it with most recent web browsers or iOS/Android apps, Win10 is not supported in this version as well, so all in all, it may be good only for testing some old apps and technologies.

Sorry I mean the last version 8.0

hi,
Ranorex 8 supports up to .NET Framework 4.6.

regards, qwertzu