C++/CLI Dll AspNetCore load issue

bkahvec1

Hi,

I'm reaching out for a generic issue. In our department, we are using LinqPad for long time with older versions. Now we are migrating from .NET Fx to .NET 8, and using LinqPad 8 we cannot properly load our C++/CLI library, let's name it MyNetInterface.dll.

This is our output from debugging query process of LinqPad:

Marking "Reference ASP .NET Core" and including MyNetInterface.runtimeconfig.json in query properties was not a solution. Basically, only solution we could find was replacing this file:

%LocalAppData%\LINQPad\8.8.9\ProcessServer\8.0.16\LINQPad.Query.runtimeconfig.json

By a file that includes "Microsoft.AspNetCore.App" as a framework:

{

"runtimeOptions": {
    "tfm": "net8.0",
    "rollForward": "Disable",
    "frameworks": [
        {
            "name": "Microsoft.NETCore.App",
            "version": "8.0.16"
        },
        {
            "name": "Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App",
            "version": "8.0.16"
        },
        {
            "name": "Microsoft.AspNetCore.App",
            "version": "8.0.16"
        }
    ]
}

}

This was the only way, and it works, yay! But linqpad overwrites this file on launch. Could you suggest any way to prevent this? Or any possibility to reflect option "Reference ASP .NET Core" in this file? We'd appreciate any help. Thank you.

JoeAlbahari

Try the latest LINQPad 9 build (9.1.6). I've updated the program that generates the runtimeconfig.json so it emits an AspNetCore entry if you've enabled the ASP.NET option in script properties.

bkahvec1

Thanks @JoeAlbahari, that was exactly what we needed and solves our problem!