I have a created a C# console application that does something. Lets say its name is SampleTest. I use a config file named App.config in it. When I build this project, it creates files like SampleTest.exe, SampleTest.exe.config, etc. This is all fine.
My friend wants to execute this executable. So rather than sending SampleTest.exe and SampleTest.exe.config, I renamed the two files to DocumentManager.exe and DocumentManager.exe.config and gave it to him.
We noticed that this way, the DocumentManager.exe is not able to use the DocumentManager.exe.config file.
Please let us know what do I need to do in Visual Studio to this SampleTest project for it to generate DocumentManager.exe and DocumentManager.exe.config?
I tried renaming the SampleTest project to DocumentManager and building it but it still generates SampleTest.exe
Renaming the Assembly
Renaming the project on it's own is likely not going to be enough for what you are trying to accomplish. You'll need to ensure that you update the name of your assembly and namespace as well, which can be done through Properties > Application > Assembly name :
Changing the assembly name will change the names of your executable and .config files generated when building the project. It's probably worth changing your default namespace as well, just to keep things consistent.
You have to rename assembly. To fix this please do the following:
Navigate to project folder and find SampleTest.csproj file.
Open that file in some text editor like Notepad++. Find elements:
<RootNamespace>SampleTest</RootNamespace>
<AssemblyName>SampleTest</AssemblyName>
Rename their values into:
<RootNamespace>DocumentManager</RootNamespace>
<AssemblyName>DocumentManager</AssemblyName>`.
4. Build your project and you will see new DocumentManager.exe.config and new DocumentManager.exe files.
Or you can change Namespace and AssemblyName trough UI by navigating to Properties > Application > Assembly Name.
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I'm a little bit stuck. I've just checked out an open source project from google code for something and it's a nice little C# code base.
However there's no solution file or anything. I'm not really sure how to compile it from here on as I've always worked within a solution.
I can't seem to find a solution online and was just wondering if someone could tell me how to compile a number of .cs files together to run, or how to create a solution from them.
Create a new project. You will need to decide whether it should be a class library, console application, etc. depending on what the open source project is supposed to be.
Right-click on the project and select Add -> New Item.
From the file dialog, select all of the .cs files you wish to compile.
If the project is not a class library, then right-click on the project and select Properties. Go to the Application tab and specify which class contains the startup object.
Build the project and see if it works.
Contact the project maintainers and ask them to include a proper project file. Offer to send your .csproj file if it works.
It's also possible to compile manually on the command-line with the C# compiler, but this would be more difficult.
Create an empty solution and add those files to an empty project [Need to figure out project type though].
If you project have .csproj file then create empty solution and add this project to the solution using .csproj file.
If you have'nt .csproj file then you have to figure out the the type of the project and then add these file to the project to make the solution.
Is a class file like MyClass.cs.bak used at run-time even though there is a class file by the name of MyClass.cs within the same Visual Studio project?
Both files are included in the project. The project is of Web Application type, so everything compiles into a single dll when deploying. I am not sure if during compilation, the .bak file is ignored.
I am working on a project in Visual Studio, in which some past developer has included both these files within the project.
If you click on the file in Solution Explorer and look at the Properties window, you'll see a property called "Build Action". This defines whether the file will be treated like code ("Compile"), included as a resource ("Embedded Resource"), or ignored ("None").
When a file is added to a project, the default Build Action is selected based on the file extension. For .bak files, which have no particular meaning to C# projects, the default "None" should be selected, and the file will be ignored when compiling the project.
No.
The .bak file is treated as a normal text file.
This is quite easy to test. Create a new class file, with a class name foo.
Now create a new .cs.bak file and type in the same code.
when you compile the project, you would expect a duplicate class declaration error - this does not occur.
As far as I know (and check), by default, a *.bak file is not considered as a C# class file in a VS Project. It's just another text file which doesn't complied into the assembly as a class module - Therefore, by the way, why you don't get duplicate class names declaration exception.
You can always tell to VS to treat it as a compilable c# file: Properties -> Build Action -> Compile.
It's just look like a backup (bak) source file - just for history purposes, I assume.
I have a console application that builds some default classes for me from a database. When the files are built, I want to be able to refresh my folders and see the new files in my class library.
However no matter what I do the files don't show up unless I go in and manually add existing files. Is there a way for VS2010 to look at the file folder and add in anything that is in that folder to the project? For example:
Folder > File1.cs, File2.cs, File3.cs, File4.cs
VS2010 sees
Folder > File1.cs
How can I make VS2010 show these new classes?
Your problem is that you will only see files that are included and referenced in your .csproj file. This is by and large a good thing because it gives you ultimate control over what is taken into account in the project or not. This is causing you a problem though, because the created files which are inserted into your project directory aren't being referenced. As you have mentioned you can include the files manually, but I understand that you wish this process to be automatic.
The best way to resovle this in my opinion is instead of having a project create the files, use design-time T4 templates. Design-time T4 templates are files which resemble pre-Razor ASP.NET views, which allow code generation within your project. You can access your database, format your classes and then output .cs files directly into your project without building it. This is extremely convenient becuase it lets you work on catching compile-time errors that may come up based on the output without having to do a complete build.
More information about using T4 can be found here.
And a good walkthrough can be found here.
Haven't tried this personally, but you should be able to do it using this..
First gain a reference to your project using your apps' solution, then with the Visual Studio automation framework (DTE):
ProjectItems p = Project.ProjectItems;
p.AddFromFile("File1.cs");
Taken from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/envdte.projectitems.addfromfile.aspx
I would read further into it.
Select the project where you can find your file
On top of your solution explorer you can select "show all files"
Select your files and include
Adding them automatically can be done from another app or script by modifying your projects .csproj/vbproj file
<Compile Include="My Project\MyClass.vb" />
This must be done in the correct itemgroup.
I think this is not directly possible. You may write a template file (t4) in order to create you cs files and they will be added to project when the transformation file is run.
In order to run the transformation file after / before build, you may write a pre/post build event.
That will require you to create a VS add-in.. you can find an example here...
Okay so I have a console application that is building some default classes for me from a database.
Can't you let this application write all classes in one file, say Proxy.cs or Entities.cs. Then every time you regenerate the file and rebuild the project, you can access the new classes.
I'm writing a C# project which I want to compile both under VS2010 and VS2012. I want to have two different .csproj files for that, even though VS2010-project can be directly included in VS2012-solution. I want two different project files because of different target .NET-versions.
Additionally, I want both projects to be named the same within different solutions for VS2010 and VS2012. The both should share the same .cs-files and, possibly, some resources.
Easy task? Strange thing, but I don't know, how to do that properly.
First approach, doesn't work: name project files as MyProject10.csproj and MyProject12.csproj, leave both in the MyProject folder. But in this case they are displayed in solution as MyProject10 and MyProject12, not simply MyProject. If I rename one to MyProject in solution explorer, it automatically renames the corresponding project file.
Second approach, works, but has drawbacks. Move project files into different subdirectories, named VS10 and VS12, manually change include paths in .csproj-files, adding ..\ as a prefix. In this case I see strange shortcut-like arrows under the icons in solution explorer.
The only bad thing for the second approach is that when I add new files in the project using solution explorer, this file is placed in the VS10 subdirectory, not in the root project directory. But it seems like project directories for .csproj-files are the directories containing the file by design, and I use the dark side of the force which I really don't want to do.
Any better ideas?
Worth giving a try is changing the name of the output assembly in both projects to one and the same. The project files are still going to be different, but the output assembly will be with same name. Also be carefull where is the output directory. I think this way you can sovle your problem.
So I wrote some custom classes and put them all in a namespace, call it "Sphere".
On my aspx.cs codebehind file, I have "using Sphere;" written. I know that this works because it's always worked until I copied this project to a new folder. Also, even when I click "view in web browser" everything works perfectly.
Simply, Visual Studio 08 is not recognizing the namespace and so I cannot build without an error and consequently cannot debug. Thanks for the help!
edit:
I have my namespace in my App_Code folder in a .cs file
Are your custom classes in a separate project? If so, you might need to add a reference to that project. If you have copied the project to a new folder, the path to your Sphere DLL/project in VS2008 might be broken.
I actually just figured it out:
My .cs files were set to "build action: content" rather than "compile." I right-clicked + properties all my files and changed the build action, and now it all works!
Sounds like missing reference.
In your new project, do you have a reference to the project that defines the actual Sphere namespace?
Check your references. It's possible VS is no longer finding them after you moved your application's folder.
It sounds like when you moved the files the references were broken. If the sphere classes are in a seperate dll try deleting and re-adding the reference. If it is just in a .de file be sure that filein the project is still in the relative path.
Probably you got this error:
The type or namespace name 'CustomClass' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
And the reason the type was not in the assembly is that App_Code folder is specific folder for Web Site Projects. These files get compiled at runtime when they are deployed on server and not when you are building the project.
In Web Application Project every file has Build Action property. By default the classes files have value of Compile. But if the class is created in App_Code file it gets value Content. and does not get compiled when running as Application.
A the end the App_Code folder is not meant to be used in Web Application. Or as you figured it out you can manually change the Build Action to Compile.
I found the answer by searching these links:
Vishal Joshi's Tangent - App_Code folder doesn’t work with Web Application Projects (WAPs)
Build Action" property set to "Content" for class files inside App_Code folder