NET5 + F# - How to build several console applications into one folder - .net-core

Let's say that I have two F# projects targeting NET5 and producing console applications. Let's call them MyService and MyAdminConsole. When I build the solution, then the folders, e.g. ...\MyService\bin\x64\Debug\net5.0 and ...\MyAdminConsole\bin\x64\Debug\net5.0 will contain:
...
appsettings.json
...
MyService.exe
MyService.dll
MyService.deps.json
MyService.runtimeconfig.json
MyService.runtimeconfig.dev.json
...
and
...
MyAdminConsole.exe
MyAdminConsole.dll
MyAdminConsole.deps.json
MyAdminConsole.runtimeconfig.json
MyAdminConsole.runtimeconfig.dev.json
...
where appsettings.json, obviously, exists only in MyService because it is the service, which needs the settings.
Now, I want to build both the service and the admin console into the same folder so that admin console could have access to the same appsettings.json and I stress the same appsettings.json, not a copy of it.
This seems straightforward, right? Just add a reference to MyAdminConsole into MyService project. However, when I rebuild the solution, then MyAdminConsole.exe and MyAdminConsole.dll are copied into ...\MyService\bin\x64\Debug\net5.0 but MyAdminConsole.*.json are not. Subsequently, MyAdminConsole won't work from that folder.
Sure, I can add post build steps and actually copy these json files where needed. However, that seems ugly and just plain wrong.
I wonder what is a proper solution? Thanks.
PS This is probably applicable to C# solutions as well but I have not checked that yet.

If I understand your issue correctly then please take a look at the workarounds proposed in https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/1675

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Sailsjs has a 'prod' grunt task, why not a 'dev' task?

I want to create a file called config.js for the client end of my app, but it should be based on the environment. I've successfully done this for production using the tasks/register/prod.js file, but sailsjs does not seem to have an equivalent dev.js file.
I also can't find much information about this, so I'm hoping there is a standard workaround I'm just not thinking of.
I'm not sure why I found it so confusing, or why I never opened the README.md (duh!) in tasks/, but dev stuff goes in the default task (tasks/register/default.js).
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How to use Migration Commands for Entity Framework through User Defined Code

I need to be able to perform all of the available functions that the Package Manager Console performs for code first DB migrations. Does anyone know how I could accomplish these commands strictly through user defined code? I am trying to automate this whole migration process and my team has hit the dreaded issue of getting the migrations out of sync due to the number of developers on this project. I want to write a project that the developer can interact with that will create and if need be rescaffold their migrations for them automatically.
PM is invoking through PowerShell and PS cmdlets (like for active directory etc.)
http://docs.nuget.org/docs/reference/package-manager-console-powershell-reference
The Package Manager Console is a PowerShell console within Visual
Studio
...there is essentially very little info about this - I've tried that before on couple occasions and it gets down to doing some 'dirty work' if you really need it (not really sure, it might not be that difficult - providing you have some PS experience)
Here are similar questions / answers - working out the PS comdlets is pretty involving - in this case it has some additional steps involved. And PS tends to get very version dependent - so you need to check this for the specific EF/CF you're using.
Run entityframework cmdlets from my code
Possible to add migration using EF DbMigrator
And you may want to look at the source code for EF that does Add-Migration
(correction: this is the link to official repository - thanks to #Brice for that)  
http://entityframework.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/f986cb32d0a3#src/EntityFramework.PowerShell/Migrations/AddMigrationCommand.cs
http://entityframework.codeplex.com/SourceControl/BrowseLatest
(PM errors also suggest the origins of the code doing the Add-Migrations to be the 'System.Data.Entity.Migrations.Design.ToolingFacade')
If you need 'just' an Update - you could try using the DbMigrator.Update (this guy gave it a try http://joshmouch.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/entity-framework-code-first-migrations-executing-migrations-using-code-not-powershell-commands/) - but I'm not sure how relevant is that to you, I doubt it.
The scaffolding is the real problem (Add-Migration) which to my knowledge isn't accessible from C# directly via EF/CF framework.
Note: - based on the code in (http://entityframework.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/f986cb32d0a3#src/EntityFramework.PowerShell/Migrations/AddMigrationCommand.cs) - and as the EF guru mentioned himself - that part of the code is calling into the System.Data.Entity.Migrations.Design library - which does most of the stuff. If it's possible to reference that one and actually repeat what AddMigrationCommand is doing - then there might not be a need for PowerShell at all. But I'm suspecting it's not that straight-forward, with possible 'internal' calls invisible to outside callers etc.
At least as of this post, you can directly access the System.Data.Entity.Migrations.Design.MigrationScaffolder class and directly call the Scaffold() methods on it, which will return you an object that contains the contents of the "regular" .cs file, the "Designer.cs" file and the .resx file.
What you do with those files is up to you!
Personally, I'm attempting to turn this into a tool that will be able to create EF6 migrations on a new ASPNET5/DNX project, which is not supported by the powershell commands.

app.config in other directory

A web service client (WCF) is compiled as a DLL, then comes the dll into the folder "c:\windows\assembly" ... just like I can now say that my DLL in C:\client\client.dll.config is expected?
It would perhaps also the possibility that the program store directly, the problem is that it starts from a SharePoint workflow that is surely not quite that simple.
It may sound silly, but the problem sounds so simple ... Unfortunately I have found so far after a while no concrete solution to Find.
EDIT:
No idea? It is the despair, I am running out of time and I have so much work to implement all this, and such a ridiculous number of hours to keep me?
I've found a lot in terms of editing files, but I will not change it I will change only the access to another directory where the file is ...
In the proxy classes, we refer only so eager ...
[System.ServiceModel.ServiceContractAttribute
(Name = "_-ASD_-CAS01D0005P0000013203",
Namespace = "urn:sap-com:document:sap:soap:functions:mc-style",
ConfigurationName = "_ASD_CAS01D0005P000001320")
]
There must theoretically be possible to simply change the ...
I'm just trying to throw it somewhere in the folder of SharePoint, there is the program being started. The file is from "C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv" started, but on this directory, the dll probably does not have access, because I still get the same error as if there was no config file there.
The file is from "C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv" started, but on this directory, the dll probably does not have access, because I still get the same error as if there was no config file there.
Finally solved by
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetData ("APP_CONFIG_FILE");
I can not find it an addictive client.dll.config, but instead the web.config in SharePoint virtual directory "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\Virtual Directories\80\" searches. I added the information there and it works fine!

Problem with Team Build 2010 and web.config transformation

I'm struggling to get web.config transformations working with automated builds.
We have a reasonably large solution, containing one ASP.NET web application and eight class libraries. We have three developers working on the project and, up to now, each has "published" the solution to a local folder then used file copy to deploy to a test server. I'm trying to put an automated build/deploy solution in place using TFS 2010.
I created a build definition and added a call to msdeploy.exe in the build process template, to get the application deployed to the test server. So far, so good!
I then tried to implement web.config transforms and I just can't get them to work. If I build and publish locally on my PC, the "publish" folder has the correct, transformed web.config file.
Using team build, the transformation just does not happen, and I just have the base web.config file.
I tried adding a post-build step in the web application's project file, as others have suggested, similar to:
<target name="AfterBuild">
<TransformXml Source="Web.generic.config"
Transform="$(ProjectConfigTransformFileName)"
Destination="Web.Config" />
</target>
but this fails beacuse the source web.config file has an "applicationSettings" section. I get the error
Could not find schema information for the element 'applicationSettings'.
I've seen suggstions around adding arguments to the MSBuild task in the build definition like
/t:TransformWebConfig /p:Configuration=Debug
But this falls over when the class library projects are built, presumably because they don't have a web.config file.
Any ideas? Like others, I thought this would "just work", but apparently not. This is the last part I need to get working and it's driving me mad. I'm not an msbuild expert, so plain and simple please!
Thanks in advance.
Doug
I just went through this. Our build was a bit more complicated in that we have 8 class libraries and 9 web applications in one solution. But the flow is the same.
First off get rid of your after build target. You won't need that.
You need to use the MSDeployPublish service. This will require that it be installed and configured properly on the destination server. Check the following links for info on this part:
Note that the server in question MUST be configured properly with the correct user rights. The following sites helped me get that properly set up.
http://william.jerla.me/post/2010/03/20/Configuring-MSDeploy-in-IIS-7.aspx
http://vishaljoshi.blogspot.com/2010/11/team-build-web-deployment-web-deploy-vs.html
How can I get TFS2010 to run MSDEPLOY for me through MSBUILD?
The next part requires that your build definition have the correct MSBuild parameters set up to do the publish. Those parameters are entered in the Process > 3.Advanced > MS Build Arguments line of the build definition. Here's a hint:
(don't change the following for any reason)
/p:DeployOnBuild=True
/p:DeployTarget=MsDeployPublish
/p:CreatePackageOnPublish=False
/p:MSDeployPublishMethod=WMSVC
/p:SkipExtraFilesOnServer=True
/p:AllowUntrustedCertificate=True
(These control where it's going)
/p:MSDeployServiceUrl="https://testserver.domain:8172/msdeploy.axd"
/p:UserName=testserver\buildaccount
/p:Password=buildacctpassword
/p:DeployIisAppPath="MyApp - TESTING"
Obviously the user will have to be configured in IIS on the target server to be allowed access to that axd (see previous links). And the IisAppPath is the name of the website on the target server.
You won't have to do anything special for the config transformations as the build itself will take care of that for you. Just have the correct setting in the line at Process > 1. Required > Items to Build > Configurations To Build.
Instead of trying to do the deploy by adding tasks myself into the build process template, I followed advice in Vishal Joshi's blog post here.
Now the entire project is built and deployed and the web.config transformations work also. Brilliant!
I now have another problem to solve! The web application references web services and the build process results in an XmlSerializers dll. However, although this is built OK, it does not get deployed to the web host. I think this needs a new post!
Doug

Runtime error but project compiles fine - Imports/using missing

I am very confused right now. I have VS2008 at my job right now and I have a weird behavior that I have been searching for a while now.
When I compile the project, it works fine, but in runtime I have an error saying object not defined or something like that. The problem is that the imports/using is missing in my class but why does it compile?
In fact, I want to be able to see that error when compiling not when running the webapp.
REEDITED: Here is an example. Lets say i want to use a typed list, I am declaring my object list(of int) for example without having added my imports (system.collection.generic) in the class. then I compile, it works and then I run it, it fails because of the imports missing. is this normal behavior or not?
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problem was because we were having the classes in the app_data folder
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If you post the real errors (probably should be as another SO question), we can perhaps help you with them.
Remove all the dll, etc from bin...
rebuild the whole solution then run
It should run fine...

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