T4 Assembly Directive with Relative Path in Website Project?

Question

I have a website project in Visual Studio and I'm trying to reference some assemblies from the bin directory of the site.

So far, the rooted path is the only one that works:

<#@ Assembly Name="C:\Code\Web Solution\Website\bin\My.dll" />

Other people mentioned using msbuild variables, but this doesn't work for me:

<#@ Assembly Name="$(SolutionDir)Website\bin\My.dll" />

and I'm pretty sure relative paths just flat out don't work (My tt file is in a subfolder in App_Code):

<#@ Assembly Name="..\..\bin\My.dll" />

Without using the rooted path, is there any way to make this work in the context of a website project?

Answer 1

GAC or absolute paths are required for assembly references in T4 Templates.

However you can use relative paths from a known path:

eg:

$(SolutionDir)\..\..\packages\Pluralizer.0.3.0.1\lib\net40\Pluralize.dll