在没有 Visual Studio 的情况下跨项目共享类

Question

I know this is by no means an unexplored issue, but my problem is pretty simple. I have an MVC application with all of my models, and I'm just finishing up a document generator for it. Ideally I would like to painlessly just inject it into this application after packaging the document generator separately, though I'm not sure if this is the best way of going about this.

The main issue is for my document generator I really need to access many models such as Discrepancy, WorkOrder, Part, etc. so they can be passed as arguments. What is the easiest, most loosely coupled way of sharing these classes across both my MVC application and my document generator? I'm using .NET Core and Visual Studio Code, so I don't have Visual Studio's UI to help add links or shared projects.

Answer 1

I don't know the ideal way to share a class across two independent projects here

Ideal way is to create new project with classes you want to share and reference it from both projects.

In the root directory of your solution

dotnet new classlib -n MyModels -t netstandard2.0

Move model classes into new project
Then in document generator directory reference just created models project

dotnet add reference ../MyModels/MyModels.csproj

Done

You can create a solution file to represent your projects

dotnet sln MySolution.sln add MyModels/MyModels.csproj Documents/Documents.csproj

Pretty sure there are some extensions for Visual Studio Code to handle c# projects and solutions

For example: vscode-solution-explorer