NT Version (8.1.2.0) import error with a protected compiled assembly

[QuantKey_Bruce]

NinjaTrader_BrandonH Thank you. No, not multiple Script Editor windows. No, not only on the first compile. It's easy to reproduce - just as described a few posts ago. If you open Visual Studio and open up 10 or 20 files while one Script Editor is open, then do something trivial to all 10-20 of them such as add a space in a comment, then click "save all" it proceeds to recompile like 20 times in a row which takes essentially forever (so long that I ended the NinjaTrader process rather than wait it out) and previously it would only have compiled once and worked correctly. I could send you a workspace but that is not relevant to the reported issue. The workspace could be empty except for one script editor and it would do this.

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello QuantKey_Bruce,

Thanks for that information.

I have informed the Development team of your notes so they may look into the behavior further.

Thanks for reporting this.

[intelligenttrader]

Hello. Just ran into this problem myself. From a professional approach the vendor support team should send out an email informing vendors of potential issues. This would have saved me multiple days of waste. As well I believe there should be a vendor setting which allows bypassing login. This is the main reason I stayed on 8.0.28. Who wants to login 100 times per day. Just my two cents.

[intelligenttrader]

I also might add that 8.1.1.7 ships with 12.0.3.23909 where as 8.1.2.0 ships with 13.0.3.27908 of Newtonsoft. Which might also pose some problems for some.

[saltminer]

I've got the "stuck in compiling" problem too. Am downgrading to regain usability.
saltminer.

[QuantKey_Bruce]

Regarding the Newtonsoft - this is explicitly stated in the release notes.

[QuantKey_Bruce]

Maybe it would be informative if some of those who are referencing Newtonsoft directly might post what their use case is - why do you need to use Newtonsoft in your scripts?

[jeronymite]

Re "Feature # 4451 Workspace loading indicator", I would have preferred a simple "static" or standard "rotating" icon, only because it must have taken someone some significant time and effort to create this silly animation, which time and effort would have been better spent on matters of substance (of which there is no shortage to attend to!), not on fluffy nonsense.

Thanks.

[CDXTrader]

Hello. Just ran into this problem myself. From a professional approach the vendor support team should send out an email informing vendors of potential issues. This would have saved me multiple days of waste. As well I believe there should be a vendor setting which allows bypassing login. This is the main reason I stayed on 8.0.28. Who wants to login 100 times per day. Just my two cents.

NinjaTrader_BrandonH
Hi, just adding reinforcement here to the ongoing issue. Agree with intelligenttrader that it would be very much appreciated if you guys could send out a vendor notification of some sort when a consequential feature is impacted such as deploying protected scripts using Agile.net. Like others, I spent three days chasing my tail on this, thinking there was some component of my scripts that could be modified to correct the issue, to no avail.

Seems pretty important, from a business model standpoint, that the ecosystem maintain compatibility with the latest version of NinjaTrader. If you handicap us by not making that possible and not communicating or not vetting the functionality of ecosystem-deployed scripts, that's putting a pretty big burden on a large part of your ecosystem and like yourselves, I'm sure all of us are not too fond of wasting countless hours of time chasing after problems that are not within our control.

Agree on the 'bypassing login' setting as well. Please add my vote to the other dozens/hundreds?

Thank you for your consideration. Cheers

[intelligenttrader]

Maybe it would be informative if some of those who are referencing Newtonsoft directly might post what their use case is - why do you need to use Newtonsoft in your scripts?

We use Newtonsoft in our license model to reference native json data from our backend subscription service. Regardless of "the use case" again simply sending out code breaking changes to vendors prior to customers installing said new releases would allow time to make development decisions as it pertains to the unique requirements of the vendor.

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello all,

Thanks for your patience.

We have an update in regard to using Agile to protect compiled assemblies in 8.1.2.0.

Agile has released 6.9.1.2 and it could be downloaded from the link below.
https://secureteam.net/content/Agile...taller6912.exe

The Help Guide documentation will also be updated to include this information.

[QuantKey_Bruce]

Thank you NinjaTrader_BrandonH. Is this version backward compatible such that it can be used on 8.1.1.7 and 8.0.28.0?

Also, to be clear, is the link you have provided to the NinjaTrader-specific Agile.NET version (not the Standard Edition) but the download itself is not locked to a specific MAC address?

[L33TB0Y]

Thank you NinjaTrader_BrandonH. Is this version backward compatible such that it can be used on 8.1.1.7 and 8.0.28.0?

Also, to be clear, is the link you have provided to the NinjaTrader-specific Agile.NET version (not the Standard Edition) but the download itself is not locked to a specific MAC address?

I tried installing it and when exporting a protected assembly it gives an error and says no license is found. Not sure how we're supposed to get a licensed version of the update when the original version I received was node locked via my MAC address.

Would be nice for SecureTeam to send their customers an updated file.

[QuantKey_Bruce]

I now believe the situation is that the download itself is the same for everyone but the license they issue is specific to both the MAC address and the version; ergo, it's not clear to me NT can just post a download link without SecureTeam sending a new license to everyone (and that license is indeed tied to your MAC address). That's just my inference from what's happened - hopefully SecureTeam will clarify. Perhaps the license they issue is specific to the MAC address but not to the version - but if that were the case, you should have been able to install this new version using the license from your original email from SecureTeam. Have you tried that? And made sure it's on the same machine as before?

[eDanny]

I downloaded 6.9.1.2 yesterday and installed it but when I tried entering my credentials it fails. I haven't tried contacting SecureTeam because it has often taken up to weeks getting a reply in the past.