How to access inherited members of derived class when instantiated in a different project

Question

I have a solution in Visual Studio 2013 (Community Edition) that contains multiple projects, as follows:

1. Project 1:

   In Project 1 I have defined a class that derives from the DbContext class of Entity Framework. It's defined along the lines of the following:

    public class MyContext : DbContext { public DbSet<EntityClass> EntitySet {get; set; } } 

2. Project 2:

   I also have a Console Application project inside of my solution that references Project 1.

   When I create an instance of MyContext inside of Project 2 I cannot access the members inherited by MyContext from the DbContext class without adding a reference to Entity Framework and a using directive to the System.Data.Entity namespace.

Is there anyway to be able to access the members my derived context class have inherited from DbContext in Project 2 without:

a. Adding a reference to Entity Framework and writing a using directive for the System.Data.Entity namespace in a code file in Project 2; Or

b. Manually exposing each public member of DbContext in my derived context class?

Answer 1

No, That is not possible. Your project1 reference is depend upon other reference. You need to add all dependent reference under project2.