NServiceBus without spamming my solution with IMessage/NServiceBus references

Question

Has anyone found a smart way to use NServiceBus, without having to implements that useless IMessage marker interface for all messages?

Especially, when using DomainEvents, I would absolutely hate to couple my domains to a specific servce bus implementation.

Answer 1

The IMessage interface is needed so that NServiceBus can automatically register those types in the serializer. When using domain events, it isn't recommended to publish them directly on the bus - instead, a domain event handler would translate them to service-level events (which inherit IMessage).

Answer 2

You might be able to create your own interfaces implementing the NSB marker interface and then ILMerge the NSB dependencies into your own DLL. This should allow you to only require references to your own Dll and no external references to NSB.

Its what NSB does for its own dependencies so you should be able to extend the idea, be sure to check out the pitfalls of this approach though - Udi blogged about it recently

http://www.udidahan.com/2010/08/01/cautiously-merging-il/