protobuf-net.Reflection

The .proto schema tooling behind protobuf-net, as a library: parse proto2/proto3 schemas into a FileDescriptorSet, inspect or manipulate the descriptors, and generate C# or VB source from them.

var set = new FileDescriptorSet();
set.AddImportPath(".");
set.Add("person.proto", includeInOutput: true);
set.Process();

foreach (var file in CSharpCodeGenerator.Default.Generate(set))
{
    Console.WriteLine(file.Name);
    Console.WriteLine(file.Text);
}

The common imports (google/protobuf/*.proto and friends) are embedded, so they resolve without being on disk. This is the same code generation used by the protogen command-line tool and by protobuf-net.dev; if you just want generated types, prefer one of those, or the build-time generation described below.

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• Generating code from .proto files
• Schema analysis tools
• Release notes