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Don Rhummy
Don Rhummy

Reputation: 25820

When using CSharpCodeProvider.CompileAssemblyFromSource how reference an interface in the running project?

I have some code that is running and generates an implementation of an interface at runtime. I am trying to use CSharpCodeProvider but when I try to compile code that has a class implementing an interface in the same code from the running application (which is running in debug mode in Visual Studio), it throws an exception:

"The type or namespace name 'TestCodeGen' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)"

My code:

using System;
using System.CodeDom.Compiler;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Web.Http;
using Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform;

namespace TestCodeGen
{
    public class TestApp
    {
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            CSharpCodeProvider provider = new CSharpCodeProvider();

            CompilerParameters parameters = new CompilerParameters();
            parameters.GenerateExecutable = false;
            parameters.GenerateInMemory = true;
            parameters.OutputAssembly = "MyImpl";

            CompilerResults results = provider.CompileAssemblyFromSource(
                parameters,
                @"
                    using TestCodeGen;
                    public class MyImpl : IInterface
                    {
                        public string GetName()
                        {
                            return ""test"";
                        }
                    }
                "
            );

            IInterface impl = (IInterface) Activator.CreateInstance(null, "MyImpl");


        System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(impl.GetName());
        }
    }

    public interface IInterface
    {
        string GetName();
    }
}

How would I add a reference to my interface and its namespace? Is there some way to use parameters.ReferencedAssemblies.Add("WHAT_GOES_HERE?");?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1375

Answers (1)

meziantou
meziantou

Reputation: 21337

You need to add a reference to the assembly that contains IInterface. You can use typeof(IInterface).Assembly.Location.

To create an instance of MyImpl, you first need to get the type using results.CompiledAssembly.GetType("MyImpl")

using System;
using System.CodeDom.Compiler;
using Microsoft.CSharp;

public class TestApp
{
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        CSharpCodeProvider provider = new CSharpCodeProvider();

        CompilerParameters parameters = new CompilerParameters();
        parameters.GenerateExecutable = false;
        parameters.GenerateInMemory = true;
        parameters.OutputAssembly = "MyImpl";
        parameters.ReferencedAssemblies.Add(typeof(IInterface).Assembly.Location);

        CompilerResults results = provider.CompileAssemblyFromSource(
            parameters,
            @"
                    public class MyImpl : IInterface
                    {
                        public string GetName()
                        {
                            return ""test"";
                        }
                    }
                "
        );

        var myImplType = results.CompiledAssembly.GetType("MyImpl");
        IInterface impl = (IInterface)Activator.CreateInstance(myImplType);


        System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(impl.GetName());
    }
}

public interface IInterface
{
    string GetName();

}

Upvotes: 1

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