What I'm trying to achieve is generate a project dynamically from c# classes generated by me. This classes' content are a similar content of code-first code generation of entity framework.The content looks as follows:
namespace ElasticTables
{
using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.KeyAttribute;
[Table("address")]
public partial class address
{
[Key]
public decimal id { get; set; }
public string name { get; set; }
}
}
I generate this files from the tables in my database, and then try to compile it programmatically so that I can reference the generated project in another project that works with an API.
The main errors while compiling is:
The type or namespace name 'KeyAttribute' does not exist in the namespace 'System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
The type or namespace 'Key' could not be found
The type or namespace 'Table' could not be found.
I'm using 'CSharpCodeProvider'
var provider = new CSharpCodeProvider();
var options = new CompilerParameters
{
OutputAssembly = "ElasticTables.dll",
CompilerOptions = "/optimize"
};
And I have the following referenced Assemblies
options.ReferencedAssemblies.Add(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + "\\EntityFramework.dll");
options.ReferencedAssemblies.Add(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + "\\EntityFramework.SqlServer.dll");
I have an string array with the files' paths called sources, and I try to compile with the following line
CompilerResults results = provider.CompileAssemblyFromFile(options, sources);
Help is much appreciated.