Default protection level of ThisAssembly

[markfinal]

Hi,

First of all, great idea for a NuGet package. Wish I'd found it sooner.

Unfortunately, in trying to use ThisAssembly directly as per the readme.txt, i.e. I added this to my C# source:

[assembly: AssemblyVersion (ThisAssembly.Git.SemVer.Major + "." + ThisAssembly.Git.SemVer.Minor + "." + ThisAssembly.Git.SemVer.Patch)]
[assembly: AssemblyInformationalVersion (
  ThisAssembly.Git.SemVer.Major + "." +
  ThisAssembly.Git.SemVer.Minor + "." +
  ThisAssembly.Git.SemVer.Patch + "-" +
  ThisAssembly.Git.Branch + "+" +
  ThisAssembly.Git.Commit)]

I get this error:

ThisAssembly' is inaccessible due to its protection level

since it's declared as

  /// <summary>Provides access to the current assembly information.</summary>
  partial class ThisAssembly
  {

hence private.

Should ThisAssembly not be public in order to use as advertised?

Observed in both VisualStudio 2013, and VisualStudio for Mac 7.5.2.

Thanks

[markfinal]

To further clarify, this error appears on projects of type ClassLibrary. Not ConsoleApplication.

[markfinal]

Argh, user error. Sorry.

I have a multi-project solution, each referencing some shared C# code for the assembly info, which I had put a reference to ThisAssembly.

What I hadn't done is add a NuGet package to each and every project that used that reference.
Everything is working as expected.

[kzu]

Glad it's working @markfinal! If you switch to the awesome PackageReference format for nuget references, you would only need to add it to the top-level dependency, since the reference flows transitively to all referencing projects now :)