Can't find dependency when loading assembly

[hdsheena]

2023-11-22T08:19:44.4700133-08:00 [DEBUG] dbContextTypeName parameter is null
2023-11-22T08:19:44.8612102-08:00 [INFO] Looking for DinkToPdf
2023-11-22T08:19:45.1525540-08:00 [INFO] Not found - DinkToPdf

I've tried running from the command line so I can specify dbContextTypeName (which changes the debug log to show it but doesnt change the next issue)
DinkToPdf isn't even the first referenced dependency.
Ideas to debug are appreciated!

[msawczyn]

Rather than reading from your build output directory, do a 'Publish' and read from that directory. It's likely to have more of the dependencies in it. The search pattern during parsing is

1. The current directory for the parser (installation directory of the extension)
2. Directory the assembly to be parsed is in
3. The GAC

Then it gives up. Best if all the dependencies (and their dependencies) are in the input assembly's directory except, of course, for system stuff that's in the GAC ... no need to copy those.

The parser has to create an instance of your DbContext so it can walk through its model and pull the relevant details.

This is the most troublesome part of the parser. I'd love it if someone who's done this kind of thing before would offer a pull request on it, but that hasn't happened yet ☹️ .