TaskSchema Take II

Following on the heels of my last post:

I contacted Jonathan deHalleux, the person who originally developed the MSBCT TaskSchema code, and asked him if he was still updating that project. He answered that he wasn't. So no luck there.

I went ahead and made some updates myself that seems to work.

• First of all, I added a test class to my local MSBCT project in order to test the damn thing.
• Second, instead of Assembly.LoadFrom(path), I switched to Assembly.Load(bytes[]).
• Third, I added some handler code in the part that loads the documentation. I found that if you load an assembly in-memory the Assembly.Location value is null, and the previous code didn't do much in the way of validation checking.

The result? Well, now I can rebuild my solution in the GenerateTaskSchema configuration as many times in a row as I like. I'm tentatively willing to say that the locking problems I had experienced are history.

My next step may be to contribute this change to the MSBCT tree, but first I think I want to poke around in the code a bit more to find out what that whole documentation section does (or intends to do).