In a project within my solution I have the following code to generate a .dll assembly. Developed mainly with the msdn documentation and the answer to another question here on stackoverflow. The code builds and runs fine and the ".dll" assembly in generated in the bin\debug folder within the project. However I have problems referencing the assembly in other projects within the solution. I right click references-> add reference and select the ".dll" file. When I click ok I get the error message stated in the title of this question. Thanks.
// 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");
