Recent cTrader.Automate 1.0.6 NuGet update breaks multi project solutions.

Spotware
30 Jan 2023, 09:28

Dear trader,

This change was intentional. The name of the algo is taken from the folder in which the project is located. If you want to have several bots inside one solution, you need to place the cBot project in a separate folder and add the existing project to the solution.

Best Regards,

cTrader Team

taras.alenin
02 Feb 2023, 07:10 ( Updated at: 02 Feb 2023, 07:43 )

Thanks for your response. A follow up question. I currently have all my Indicators and Robot projects in their own directories. All sharing a common solution folder. What are you suggesting is the correct directory structure should be?

E.g. here the output of the build with 1.0.6. As you can see, the name is derived from the overall solution folder 'BigT' not the name of the directory of this particular indicator in this case 'BigT.FractalFarcture'.

1>BigT.FractalFracture -> C:\Users\Taras\source\repos\BigT\BigT.FractalFracture\bin\Debug\net6.0\BigT.FractalFracture.dll
1>BigT.FractalFracture -> C:\Users\Taras\source\repos\BigT\BigT.FractalFracture\bin\Debug\net6.0\BigT.algo
1>BigT.FractalFracture -> C:\Users\Taras\OneDrive\Documents\cAlgo\Sources\Indicators\BigT.algo

I appreciate you have reasons for the change. However, why take away the ability for the developer to control the name of the output *.algo file directly, explicitly. That way if one wants a solution structure in a way that makes sense to them, they can. I.e. can we please have the following option back.

<AlgoName Condition="'$(AlgoName)' == ''">$(MSBuildProjectName)</AlgoName>

Thanks,
Taras

josef.van.niekerk
28 Aug 2023, 22:39 ( Updated at: 30 Aug 2023, 07:03 )

RE: Recent cTrader.Automate 1.0.6 NuGet update breaks multi project solutions.

Hi @taras.alenin. Are you still able to have solutions with multiple projects as of cTrader.Automate version 1.0.8. I'm seeing my projects using my solution as the output name for the projects .algo filename.

Apologies to hijack your thread. I did also create a separate forum post.