ByteDev.DotNet 1.0.0

ByteDev.DotNet

Set of classes for reading .NET solution and project files.

Installation

ByteDev.DotNet has been written as a .NET Standard 2.0 library, so you can consume it from a .NET Core or .NET Framework 4.6.1 (or greater) application.

ByteDev.DotNet is hosted as a package on nuget.org. To install from the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio run:

Install-Package ByteDev.DotNet

Further details can be found on the nuget page.

Code

The repo can be cloned from git bash:

git clone https://github.com/ByteDev/ByteDev.DotNet

Usage

There are two main classes in the project: DotNetSolution and DotNetProject.

DotNetSolution

Read in a .NET solution file and pass it into a DotNetSolution object:

string slnText = File.ReadAllText(@"C:\mysolution.sln");

var dotNetSolution = new DotNetSolution(slnText);

Console.WriteLine(dotNetSolution.VisualStudioVersion);
Console.WriteLine(dotNetSolution.Projects.Count);

DotNetProject

Read in a .NET project file and pass it into a DotNetProject object:

string projXml = XDocument.Load(@"C:\myproj.csproj");

var dotNetProject = new DotNetProject(projXml);

Console.WriteLine(dotNetProject.ProjectTargets.Single());
Console.WriteLine(dotNetProject.Format);