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Access to internal project classes

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By Kosarev Dmitry 1 min read

There are several approaches to providing access to another project’s internal classes.

  1. Add any class (usually /root/Properties/InternalsVisibleTo.cs) with following content

    runtime repo contains at least 26 similar files as “…runtime\src\libraries\System.Runtime.Numerics\src\Properties\InternalsVisibleTo.cs”

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      using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
  [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("bar.tests"), InternalsVisibleTo("bar.tests1")]

  2. Adding to Assembly.info

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     // Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

 using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;

 [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("OpenTelemetry" + AssemblyInfo.PublicKey)]
 [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("OpenTelemetry.Api.ProviderBuilderExtensions" + AssemblyInfo.PublicKey)]
 [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("OpenTelemetry.Api.ProviderBuilderExtensions.Tests" + AssemblyInfo.PublicKey)]
 [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("OpenTelemetry.Api.Tests" + AssemblyInfo.PublicKey)]
 [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Console" + AssemblyInfo.PublicKey)]
 [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("OpenTelemetry.Exporter.InMemory" + AssemblyInfo.PublicKey)]
 [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol" + AssemblyInfo.PublicKey)]
 [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol.Tests" + AssemblyInfo.PublicKey)]
 [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("OpenTelemetry.Extensions.Hosting" + AssemblyInfo.PublicKey)]
 [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("OpenTelemetry.Extensions.Hosting.Tests" + AssemblyInfo.PublicKey)]
 [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("OpenTelemetry.Shims.OpenTracing.Tests" + AssemblyInfo.PublicKey)]
 [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("OpenTelemetry.Tests" + AssemblyInfo.PublicKey)]

 #if SIGNED
 file static class AssemblyInfo
 {
     public const string PublicKey = ", PublicKey=002400000480000094000000060200000024000052534131000400000100010051C1562A090FB0C9F391012A32198B5E5D9A60E9B80FA2D7B434C9E5CCB7259BD606E66F9660676AFC6692B8CDC6793D190904551D2103B7B22FA636DCBB8208839785BA402EA08FC00C8F1500CCEF28BBF599AA64FFB1E1D5DC1BF3420A3777BADFE697856E9D52070A50C3EA5821C80BEF17CA3ACFFA28F89DD413F096F898";
 }
 #else
 file static class AssemblyInfo
 {
     public const string PublicKey = "";
 }
 #endif

  3. Adding items to msbuild csproj

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       <ItemGroup>
     <InternalsVisibleTo Include="StackExchange.Redis.Server" />
     <InternalsVisibleTo Include="StackExchange.Redis.Tests" />
   </ItemGroup>
dotnet
infrastructure
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