Getting the Assembly that will be produced by a .NET project...

[DynConcepts]

PRetty sure I am missing, but I have spend a few hours, and just don't see it as a property of the Project type classes.

background: I am processing a huge system. Assembly references rather than project references are used. I need to generate the association between the proj file that creates and assembly and the proj file(s) that reference it...

Thanks in advance.

[3F]

MvsSln/MvsSln/Core/IXProject.cs

Line 356 in 9ce5885

IEnumerable<Item> GetReferences(string inc = null);

And everything related to its metadata if you need

MvsSln/MvsSln/Projects/Item.cs

Line 61 in 9ce5885

public RoProperties<string, Metadata> meta;

You can also access to AsmData helper

MvsSln/MvsSln/Projects/Item.cs

Lines 91 to 97 in 9ce5885

	/// <summary>
	/// Try to extract assembly information, e.g.:
	/// Include="DllExport, Version=1.5.1.35977, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=8337224c9ad9e356, processorArchitecture=MSIL"
	/// Include="System.Core"
	/// ...
	/// </summary>
	public AsmData Assembly

If you need a type of the .NET projects,

In 2.5.3 you may note the following:

• NEW: Added the following extensions for ProjectItem:

  • IsCs() - Checking both legacy ProjectType.Cs and modern ProjectType.CsSdk types.
  • IsFs() - Checking both legacy ProjectType.Fs and modern ProjectType.FsSdk types.
  • IsVb() - Checking both legacy ProjectType.Vb and modern ProjectType.VbSdk types.
  • IsSdk() - While ProjectType cannot inform the actual use of the modern Sdk style in projects,
    current method will try to detect this by using the extended logic:
    https://github.com/dotnet/project-system/blob/master/docs/opening-with-new-project-system.md

[DynConcepts]

Thanks... I must be being dense.... The AsmData (Assembly) appears to be on an Item type...

What I am looking for (ideally in a project type invariant manner (i.e. the details are encapsulated) is related to:

[3F]

This is called property in the context of msbuild. You just need access to the AssemblyName property. Easy to use:

MvsSln/MvsSln/Core/IXProject.cs

Lines 180 to 183 in 9ce5885

	/// <param name="name">The name of the property.</param>
	/// <param name="localScope">If true, will return default value for any special and imported properties type.</param>
	/// <returns>null if no property of that name and scope exists.</returns>
	PropertyItem GetProperty(string name, bool localScope = true);

Note the 2 different values in PropertyItem:

• unevaluatedValue- raw data, for example: 'Asm.$(edition).$(product)' etc.
• evaluatedValue - final data, for example: 'Asm.rel.svc' etc.

The evaluation of the nodes is recursive (ie. each property can contain other properties, and so on); this is part of the msbuild (MvsSln 2.x). But even for 3.0 with IeXod it should follow the same rules.

// ~
xp.GetProperty("AssemblyName").evaluatedValue == "VSDependencies"

[3F]

hmm,

/// <returns>null if no property of that name and scope exists.</returns> 

looks like a typo o_o

[DynConcepts]

Thanks that was what I could not find. Since it is surfaced so hig in the VS UI, and also a "key group" my mind sort of expected a dedicated Property... Thanks again.