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visual-studio-2010protocol-buffersprotobuf-net
Niall Connaughton
Niall Connaughton

Reputation: 16107

Problems generating .cs files from .proto in VS 2010

I'm trying to edit an existing .proto file in VS2010 to add a new property to it. When I get the Visual Studio tool to regenerate the class, it deletes the file instead.

Anyone seen this problem before?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 241

Answers (1)

Marc Gravell
Marc Gravell

Reputation: 1062780

First thing to check; is the "custom tool" still set against the .proto file in the properties window ( f4 )

If it has deleted the file, I would expect that means the .proto is being problematic (in particular, it is very sensitive to encoding - it requires BOM-less UTF8 if I recall - a "feature" of the standard "protoc" that is used to parse the .proto into a tree).

If this is the case, I would expec there to be a build warning (which also tells you how to fix it, although rather annoyingly I think the UI is slightly different in VS2010 than VS2008).

I could also be entirely wrong; if so, please say so that I can investigate further.

Also: are you editing the .proto or the .cs? Avoid editing the .cs - if you want to add members, use "partial classes" instead.

Upvotes: 1

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