Including unmanaged dll's in an assembly

[Guest]

I have an unmanaged dll that I need to include as part of a managed assembly
(it provides functionality that I use via p/invoke).

I came across a blog entry called "Versioning/Deploying unmanaged files" at
http://blogs.msdn.com/suzcook/archive/2004/10/28/249280.aspx , which allows
me to do just this.

However, the above requires compiling from the command line (using csc's
"/linkresource" switch). I'd _much_ prefer getting it to work from within
Visual Studio. I can manually modify "Microsoft.CSharp.targets" to include a
"LinkResource=$(MyProp)" attribute on the main Csc task element, but that
would require me to modify any machine that builds my assembly (I think?).

I was hoping it would be possible to create a self contained project file
that "just works". Does anyone know of a way?

Thanks for any insight,
John
msdnnewsgroups at johnburnett dot com

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

John,

Don't change the Microsoft.CSharp.targets file. Rather, why not just
change the CSC task entry to include the file you want into it? You should
be able to modify the project file (and not the machine's C# target file) to
do this.

 

[Guest]

Ping? Anybody have any suggestions, or where might be a good place to ask?

Thanks,
John

 

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

Ping? Anybody have any suggestions, or where might be a good place to
ask?

Thanks,
John

A "Post build" command?

Willy.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply Nicholas, but I'm not sure I follow. What CSC task
entry are you referring to? The only one I know of is in
Microsoft.CSharp.targets, where I could insert an attribute like
"LinkResources="$(MyResourceItemGroup)"" around line 146 (in v2.0). Of
course, I really dont WANT to do that . How could I pass this into the CSC
task by just editing my project file?

Thanks again,
John

John,

Don't change the Microsoft.CSharp.targets file. Rather, why not just
change the CSC task entry to include the file you want into it? You should
be able to modify the project file (and not the machine's C# target file) to
do this.

--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- (e-mail address removed)

I have an unmanaged dll that I need to include as part of a managed
assembly
(it provides functionality that I use via p/invoke).

I came across a blog entry called "Versioning/Deploying unmanaged files"
at
http://blogs.msdn.com/suzcook/archive/2004/10/28/249280.aspx , which
allows
me to do just this.

However, the above requires compiling from the command line (using csc's
"/linkresource" switch). I'd _much_ prefer getting it to work from within
Visual Studio. I can manually modify "Microsoft.CSharp.targets" to
include a
"LinkResource=$(MyProp)" attribute on the main Csc task element, but that
would require me to modify any machine that builds my assembly (I think?).

I was hoping it would be possible to create a self contained project file
that "just works". Does anyone know of a way?

Thanks for any insight,
John
msdnnewsgroups at johnburnett dot com

 

[Guest]

........which does?

A "Post build" command?

Willy.

 

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

Execute your al.exe or csc /linkres:.... command(s).

Willy.