Executing your client in Visual Studio

The Drey nuget package contains the following items:

• the client *.dll; which is necessary to get the right interfaces for your implementation of the runtime environment to load your application.
• the Drey Configuration console
• a development runtime.exe instance.
• install/uninstall scripts.

When installing Drey into your main assembly, your csproj file will be altered with the following two lines, if they do not exist:

  <PropertyGroup>
    <StartAction>Program</StartAction>
    <StartProgram>$(SolutionDir)Runtime\Runtime.exe</StartProgram>
  </PropertyGroup>

This enables your library project to execute an external program when you click the run button from within visual studio.

Typically, these tags are setup to run in your *.{cs/vb}proj.user file. If you run into issues, edit the *.user file in a text editor, and if these entries exist within that file, delete the lines, then save the file. You will want to learn how to edit the project files within your solution vs. using the user interfaces from visual studio.