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Using CSharpCodeProvider with .net 4.5 beta

For .net 3.5 I pass v3.5 to CSharpCodeProvider, when I pass v4.5 to CSharpCodeProvider in a v4.5 app I get InvalidOperationException “Compiler executable file csc.exe cannot be found.”

Anyone any idea what’s going on here, what am I doing wrong?

Code to reproduce . . .

using Microsoft.CSharp;
using System;
using System.CodeDom.Compiler;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace Console1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var options = new Dictionary<string, string>{{"CompilerVersion", "v4.5"}};
            var cs = new CSharpCodeProvider(options);

            var compilerParams = new CompilerParameters();

            var r = cs.CompileAssemblyFromSource(compilerParams , "namespace ns { class program { public static Main(string[] args) { System.Console.WriteLine(\"Hello world\"); } } }");
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

This is by design, something you can see when you navigate to c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework with Windows Explorer. Note that you’ll only see a subdirectory named v4.0.30319, there is no v4.5 subdirectory. Or in other words, .NET 4.5 is a true in-place update for version 4.0 and the C# v5 compiler replaces the v4 compiler.

You’ll need to specify “v4.0”.