Is it possible to run C# compiler csc using Wscript in Excel VBA?

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Hi
I'm hoping somebody can help me.

Is it possible to use WScript to run the c# command line compiler?

I have a need to compile .cs files to DLLs on the fly from Excel VBA. I thought something along the lines of this would work but it doesn't. Does anybody know whether it is possible and if so i'd be grateful for any help / code snippets.

Sub Macro1()
Dim wsh As Object
Set wsh = VBA.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Dim waitOnReturn As Boolean: waitOnReturn = True
Dim windowStyle As Integer: windowStyle = 1

wsh.Run "csc /target:library /out:MathLibrary.DLL Add.cs Mult.cs", windowStyle, waitOnReturn

End Sub

Posted 10-Jan-14 3:08am

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CPallini · Answer 1 · 2014-01-10T03:24:00

Solution 1

Let's give Google[^] a try.

Posted 10-Jan-14 3:24am

CPallini

Member 10516069 · Answer 2 · 2014-01-10T06:00:00

I needed to run as an administrator as suspected

Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" _
(ByVal hWnd As Long, _
ByVal lpOperation As String, _
ByVal lpFile As String, _
ByVal lpParameters As String, _
ByVal lpDirectory As String, _
ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long

Sub RunAsAdmin()
Const SW_NORMAL As Long = 1

ShellExecute Application.hWnd, _
"runas", _
"c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe", _
"", _
"c:\windows\system32", SW_NORMAL

End Sub