PostSharp

[mrpmorris]

I have a project which has business objects in it. Whenever the project is built I would like to automatically create a secondary DLL based on the classes within it. This secondary DLL would be shared between client and server for serialising and deserlialising objects.

Is this something I can do with PostSharp?


Regards

Pete

[gfraiteur]

Hi,

You can do it with PostSharp, but I wonder if it would not be easier to use normal reflection to read the assembly, and System.CodeDom to emit the new assemblies.

You would work at a higher abstraction level, which I think is better.

Gael

[mrpmorris]

The main thing that attracted me to postsharp was the fact that the process takes place whenever I compile. The fact that latter projects in the build process would depend on this generated DLL means it would save me from having to run the project and then rebuild.


Pete

[gfraiteur]

You can achieve the same automatic post-build processing using "custom build steps".

It has always been possible with Visual Studio and is still possible with MSBuild.