Question

I have created an exe with some methods in it (ref example exe below).

using System;  
using System.Collections.Generic;  
using System.Text;  

namespace SampleRef  
{  
  public class Program  
  {  
  static void Main(string[] args)  
    {  
    }  
  }  
  public class Sample  
  {    
   public Sample(int count)  
    {

    }

    public string SampleString(int InputValue)
    {
      //Do something
       return "<the result>";
    }
  }  
}  

I want to add reference this exe into my web application to call (SampleString) methods in side the exe. Is it possible in .net and how can I achieve this?

Answer 1

Yes – just add it as if it were a class library. Visual Studio has supported this since 2005.

EDIT: Okay, it sounds like ASP.NET may not like .exe assemblies 🙁

In that case I suggest you extract the code from your current executable and put it into a class library. You may find it easier to change the whole of your normal application into a DLL – and just add another executable project which does nothing but call into the DLL to start the “application”. That shouldn’t be the end-point of your code, but it’s an easy way to get up and running.