Design-Time codegen using ToDotNet library

[solvingj]

This fairly recent article describes the use of codegen in a build process:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/modeling/code-generation-in-a-build-process?view=vs-2017

It is talking specifically about T4 templates which are separate from this project. However, from a Visual Studio/MSBuild perspective, this would seem the appropriate mechanism to generate C# classes just prior to the compilation of regular project sources, so that the generated sources can be compiled in. With that said, I don't see anywhere in the documentation discussing support for the use of JSchema ToDotNet functionality with MSBuild as part of Design-Time codegen.

Is this supported or planned?

[solvingj]

I was able to take another approach and create a custom target as shown below.

Of note, it would be really amazing if the Nuget package included a first-class Json-To-Dotnet MSBuild Task. It would be very little additional effort.

https://natemcmaster.com/blog/2017/07/05/msbuild-task-in-nuget/

    <Target Name="GenerateOpenFolderSources" BeforeTargets="PrepareForBuild">
        <PropertyGroup>  
          <ToDotNetCLI>$(PkgMicrosoft_Json_Schema_ToDotNet)\tools\net461\Microsoft.Json.Schema.ToDotNet.Cli.exe</ToDotNetCLI>

          <SchemaDirectory>Resources</SchemaDirectory>
          <GenOutDir>$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)</GenOutDir>
          
          <Namespace>MyNamespace</Namespace>
          <ClassName>MyClass</ClassName>
          <MySchemaFile>$(SchemaDirectory)/myschema.json</MySchemaFile>
          <MySchemaName>MySchemaName</MySchemaName>

          </PropertyGroup>  
        <Exec Command="$(ToDotNetCLI) -f -n $(Namespace) -o $(GenOutDir) -r $(MySchemaName) -e $(MySchemaName) -s $(MySchemaFile)"/>
    </Target>