Link to ".dll" could not be added
In a project in my solution, I have the following code to create a .dll assembly. Developed mainly with the msdn documentation and an answer to another question here on StackOverflow . The code builds and works fine and the ".dll" assembly is generated in the bin \ debug folder in the project. However, I am having problems referencing the assembly in other projects within the solution. I directly click links -> add link and select the ".dll" file. When I click ok, I get the error that is stated in the title of this question. Thank.
// Retrieve application domain ie environment where applications execute
// This is done because if an assembly is loaded into the default
// application domain it cannot be unloaded from memory while the process
// is running. However if another application domain is opened to load
// and execute the assembly, the assembly is unloaded when the application
// domain is unloaded.
AppDomain currentDomain = AppDomain.CurrentDomain;
// Now create a dynamic assembly in the current application domain
// and allow it to be executed and saved to disk
AssemblyName name = new AssemblyName("FieldIdEnum");
AssemblyBuilder assemblyBuilder = currentDomain.DefineDynamicAssembly(name,
AssemblyBuilderAccess.RunAndSave);
// Now we define a dynamic module in the assembly that was just created
// For this single single module assembly the module has the same name as
// the assembly
ModuleBuilder moduleBuilder = assemblyBuilder.DefineDynamicModule(name.Name,
name.Name + ".dll");
// Now we define the public enumeration with the name "DbFieldId" and an
// underlying type of Integer
EnumBuilder myEnumBuilder = moduleBuilder.DefineEnum("EnumeratedTypes.DbFieldId",
TypeAttributes.Public, typeof(int));
// Now retrieve the FieldId table from the database, bear in mind that the
// string description will have white spaces, these need to be trimmed
// otherwise they are invalid for enum
// For this to work a reference was added to ConsoleApplication4 and
// Entity Framework
using (FieldIdEntities dbEntities = new FieldIdEntities())
{
var lines = dbEntities.CSV_FIELD_DETAILS;
foreach (var field in lines)
{
myEnumBuilder.DefineLiteral(field.DESCRIPTION.Replace(" ", String.Empty), (int)field.FIELD_ID);
}
}
// Now create the enum
myEnumBuilder.CreateType();
// If good so far save the assembly:
assemblyBuilder.Save(name.Name + "dll");
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