Alm Toolkit: version 5.1.3 doesn't open files using relative paths anymore

[samusaran]

We currently have for every Model.bim in our codebase, one or more associated almt files.

Since this code is committed and everyone may have cloned this code in a different path, all almt files point to ".\Model.bim", since the almt file is always in the same folder as the bim file.

This doesn't work since 5.1.3, I guess because something broke the relative path compatibility. The model.bim get's opened just fine with the absolute path, which reset basically everything in the almt file (like ignored items) and it defeats the purpose of having the almt file altogether.

I think this is a breaking change for everyone that have a similar setup.

How to reproduce:

• create a model.bim
• create an almt file in the same folder pointing to "./Model.bim"
• open the almt file by double clicking on it
• the comparison can't open the file on 5.1.3, but it can on previous versions

It may have something to do with this: https://github.com/microsoft/Analysis-Services/commit/2f3120dd9097f7cb11c97c18424d096083dbecf8#diff-f233c801c535a35168538436af54ce5d8b40df38288c7d108ca1a0ae8c0e1bc6R67

Thank you

[christianwade]

Hi Alessandro, thank you for raising this and also the reference to the line of code 😀

Can you please try this pre-release and see if it works? I'll let you use if for a while before doing a full release so we know it works well and also I have to jump through hoops for digital signing for full releases nowadays.

Please also download the MSI and let me know when you have it because I want to remove the pre-release.

https://github.com/microsoft/Analysis-Services/releases/tag/5.1.4-PreRelease

Thanks, Christian

[samusaran]

Hi Christian, relative paths seems to be working correctly as before using the 5.1.4.

Thank you, Alessandro

[christianwade]

Good news. I'll remove the prebuild version shortly. The next full release (when I get to it) will include this fix. Christian