Ship with task that packs as resource.

[JohanLarsson]

@jnm2 if you feel like flexing some mad skills!

[jnm2]

This is IL-weaving a module initializer to resolve assemblies from resources? I'd want to make a standalone package for this if it was me.

[JohanLarsson]

Stand alone to make it opt-in?

[jnm2]

Standalone NuGet package that does absolutely nothing else

[jnm2]

Maybe that's too hard. Starting small might be better.

[JohanLarsson]

We have a real use case in this lib.
Avoid sln browser looking like this:

Also nuget has a bug that removes the first instance of the helper lib and breaks things if many analyzers using it are installed using different versions. This is the real reason, sln browser is mostly OCD.

[jnm2]

I actually really do want to do this. You might have successfully nerd-sniped me

[JohanLarsson]

We could start with the merged package Gu.Roslyn.Extensions only. A single dll, maybe it will not be insanely complicated.

1. Add it as resource
2. Inject module ctor.

[jnm2]

@JohanLarsson There's a bit of a problem. You'll need to target a framework that has AppDomain.AssemblyResolve or AssemblyLoadContext.Default.Resolving.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.appdomain.assemblyresolve#applies-to

Min .NET Standard 2.0/.NET Core 2.0/.NET Framework 1.1.

(.NET Core 2.1 is the earliest version supported by Microsoft.)

[JohanLarsson]

Ah, we save it for next version then. Plan is to bump to roslyn 3, netstandard 2 & C#8 soon. Not that C#8 has anything to do with this.

[JohanLarsson]

We could potentially hack around the missing event with a try-catch:

try
{
    _ = typeof(TypeInResourceAssembly);
}
catch (SomeException e)
{
    using (var stream = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream("Some.dll"))
    {
        var bytes = new byte[(int)stream.Length];
        stream.Read(bytes, 0, (int)stream.Length);
        Assembly.Load(bytes);
    }
}

Not elegant but may work.

[jnm2]

Ah, eager load. Hmm.