CSC Command Parameters Useage for C# Build Time

Question

Hello.

ParseXSD.cs

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Schema;


class XmlSchemaTraverseExample
{
    static void Main()
    {
        // Add the customer schema to a new XmlSchemaSet and compile it.
        // Any schema validation warnings and errors encountered reading or 
        // compiling the schema are handled by the ValidationEventHandler delegate.
        XmlSchemaSet schemaSet = new XmlSchemaSet();
        schemaSet.ValidationEventHandler += new ValidationEventHandler(ValidationCallback);
        schemaSet.Add("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema", "tmp.xsd");
        schemaSet.Compile();

        // Retrieve the compiled XmlSchema object from the XmlSchemaSet
        // by iterating over the Schemas property.
        XmlSchema customerSchema = null;
        foreach (XmlSchema schema in schemaSet.Schemas())
        {
            customerSchema = schema;
        }

        // inserted more code here....
}

}

Currently, my ConsoleApp worked very well.

And i want to remove the hard code (xsd file path) out from my code below.

// i don't know how to update this line.

schemaSet.Add("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema", "tmp.xsd");

Then i could run my ParseXSD.cs file at the building time with the CSC command below.

// i don't know the correct command format. I could update the path parameter easily. NO hard code.

 CSC ParseXSD.cs d:/tmp/tmp.xsd

Please give me some guide. thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Do you want to specify it at compile time or at run time?

to do it at runtime change

static void Main()

to

static void Main(string[] args)

and then

schemaSet.Add("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema", args[0]);

If you want to specify it at compile time you might be able to use precompile directives to do it, but I am not sure if they can be specified for csc. Your other option is to do the injection before compile with commandline scripts or similar.