title: Cannot compile .NET CF project containing Design time attributes without Visual Studio?
body: <p>I'm working on a .NET Compact Framework 3.5 app.  I have an automated build machine that does not have Visual Studio installed, and all has been fine.</p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to a a new solution containing control projects that have DesignTimeAttributes.xmta files.  MsBuild on the build machine is failing with cannot find file, C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\SDK\v3.5\Bin\genasm.exe.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried manually adding this directory and it's contents from my dev box to the build machine, but now I'm getting</p>
  
  <p><em>c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Microsoft.CompactFramework.Common.targets(67,9): error : genasm.exe(1) : error There was an error reading arguments. Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.CompactFramework.Build.Tasks, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. Done executing task "BuildAsmmeta" -- FAILED.</em></p>
  
  <p>Before I struggle further with this, I thought I'd ask if anyone else out there has gotten a CompactFramework project with design time attributes building on a machine without Visual Studio?</p>