KnownType Not sufficient for Inclusion
- by Kate at LittleCollie
Why isn't the use of KnownType attribute in C# sufficient for inclusion of a DLL? Working with Visual Studio 2012 with TFS responsible for builds, I am on a project in which a service required use of this attribute as in the following:
using Project.That.Contains.RequiredClassName;
[ServiceBehavior(InstanceContextMode = InstanceContextMode.PerCall, Namespace="SomeNamespace")]
[KnownType(typeof(RequiredClassName))]
public class Service : IService { }
But to get the required DLL to be included in the bin output and therefore the installer from our production build, I had to add the follow to the constructor for Service:
public Service() {
// Exists only to force inclusion
var ignore = new RequiredClassName();
}
So, given that the project that contains RequiredClassName is itself referenced by the project that contains Service, why isn't the use of the KnownType attribute sufficient for inclusion of DLL in the output?
