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Code generation using the Visual Studio Code extension

Prerequisites:

Automatic code generation and the Nethereum Code generation settings file

The simplest way is to automatically code generate your api, for this you need to create a file called “nethereum-gen.settings” at the root of your project, with the following contents.

This file can be also auto-generated for you if you press F1 and type ‘Solidity Create ‘nethereum-gen.settings’

{
    "projectName": "Solidity.Samples",
    "namespace": "Solidity.Samples",
    "lang":0,
    "autoCodeGen":true,
    "projectPath": "../SoliditySamples"
}
“lang” indicates what language to generate the code, 0 = CSharp, 1 = Vb.Net and 3 = FSharp

The “projectName” and “namespace” settings will be also used for the manual code generation.

Use the “projectPath” to set the relative path of your .Net project, this allows to work in a “solution” mode so you can work as an both in Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio (Fat) with your .Net project, or two windows of vscode.

Single smart contract manual code generation

Step 1:

In visual studio code, open the command palette with Ctrl+Shift+P. then type “solidity” and select “compile current Solidity contract”. Convert Solidity code to Json

You should now see a newly generated bin folder containing three generated files.

Step 2 Single contract:

Select the Json files contained in bin, then open the command palette, type solidity and select Solidity: Code generate CSharp from compilation output "contract.json"

If you work in Vb.Net or FSharp chose those instead.

Convert Json file to CS

Step 3 Multiple contracts:

Open the command palette, type solidity and select Solidity: Code generate CSharp project from all compiled files

If you work in Vb.Net or FSharp chose those instead.

Convert Json file to CS

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