Currently, I'm building a C#-Console that allows me to enter any C# code into a CMD for instant execution. For this approach I'm using the Roslyn compiler, because it allows me to add more code into a session object on every command, so it's allowing me to i.e. initialize anything in the first command and use it in the second command.
In this console I want to be able to access the whole .NET framework, thus I added all references to my console project and tried to iterate those references to add those into the Roslyn session:
Assembly assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
AssemblyName[] references = assembly.GetReferencedAssemblies().Where(x => !x.Name.StartsWith("Roslyn.")).ToArray();
ScriptEngine engine = new ScriptEngine();
Session session = engine.CreateSession();
foreach (AssemblyName reference in references)
{
session.AddReference(reference.FullName);
}
Unfortunately, I only get a few references my console actually use. I suspect the MSBuild compiler is very neat, detects that almost all of my references won't be used in my console, thus it won't include them at all. How I can get rid of that?
I really don't wish to parse the .proj file and maintain this list separately.