我如何在没有任何公共成员的情况下引用dll？

Question

I'm working on an integration test harness that offers developers the ability to execute methods either against our integration database or against a SQLite in-memory database.

Because none of the actual SQLite code is referenced by my harness, I have to add dummy code to ensure that msbuild copies the DLLs:

namespace References {
    internal interface IReferenceUnusedDependencies {
        SQLiteException e { set; } // Reference System.Data.SQLite.dll
        IMappingEngineRunner r { set; } // Reference AutoMapper.dll
    }
}

However, I can't figure out how to reference code from System.Data.SQLite.Linq.dll - all of the classes and interfaces it contains are internal.

Is it possible to make these references somehow?

Answer 1

Add this assembly property to your main project

using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
[assembly: InternalsVisibleTo( "MyTestDLLName" )]

Re-reading the problem, do you simply need to copy the referenced assemblies to your bin?

If so you can choose the copy to property in Visual studio (which in turn uses MSBuild) under the Item's Properties from the Solution explorer.

Select the reference in the References folder, and then choose copy local. (Other MSBuild properties are available there as well)