Question

I’ve added a specflow feature to a project and the project won’t build.

The errors I recieve are:

Error 1 The type or namespace name ‘CodeDom’ does not exist in the namespace ‘Absolute.Website.System’ (are you missing an assembly reference?) C:\source\dot_net\BWO\src\Absolute.Website.System.Tests\test.feature.cs 17 13 Absolute.Website.System.Tests

Error 3 The type or namespace name ‘Runtime’ does not exist in the namespace ‘Absolute.Website.System’ (are you missing an assembly reference?) C:\source\dot_net\BWO\src\Absolute.Website.System.Tests\test.feature.cs 18 13 Absolute.Website.System.Tests

The problem seems to lie in the auto generated test.feature.cs file with these two lines:

[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("TechTalk.SpecFlow", "1.6.1.0")]
[System.Runtime.CompilerServices.CompilerGeneratedAttribute()]

I have added a reference to the system assembly and can’t figure out what could be causing the build error. Any ideas?

Answer 1

It seems the problem was due to the name of the namespace being in the form of xxxx.System.yyyy. When I renamed the assembly the problem to remove the xxxx.System.yyyy patern the project built.