Folks,
I am in the unenviable position of being forced to reference two different
assemblies with the same type and namespace defined in both assemblies.
Needless to say, this ambiguity is a bit perplexing for the poor C#
compiler. Fortunately, MS has foreseen this problem, and has provided a
workaround - you can assign an alias to an assembly reference, and then use
the alias in your C# code to disambiguate which type you mean. For the
details, look up "extern alias" in the MSDN library.
At the csc.exe command line, an alias reference looks like this:
/r:GridV1=grid.dll
/r:GridV2=grid20.dll
In Visual Studio, you just set "Aliases" in the property grid for an
assembly reference, which produces the following bit in the .csproj file:
<Reference Include="grid, Version=4.4.2848.18442, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=af2cd47db69d93bd, processorArchitecture=MSIL">
<SpecificVersion>False</SpecificVersion>
<HintPath>..\grid.dll</HintPath>
<Aliases>GridV1</Aliases>
</Reference>
My problem is that I can't find any way to specify an alias for an assembly
reference in NAnt. Is this possible? I'll take anything that means I don't
have to convert my build script to MSBuild. Beta version, whatever. I guess
I can call csc.exe from an <exec> task if nothing else works, but I'd love a
more elegant solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
- Joel
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