Extract logic to DLL about lessmsi HOT 3 CLOSED

I'm totally open to a DLL and I'd love to merge back. Please do create a branch to make it easier to merge back. Ultimately, I think I'd like to see three assemblies:

• lessmsi.core.dll - reusable API/SDK with all core logic.
• lessmsi-gui.exe - The current GUI only version.
• lessmsi-cli.exe - A command-line interface version that is usable from the command line.

Separating command line from GUI versions seems inevitable as the current hackish approach seems to be causing problems as see in in issue #18.

I'd be happy to work on it with you such as doing the cli version after your contribution of the dll. Let me know if you need any other help at all.

What is the timeline you think this might be done on?

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I think I'm pretty much done already: https://github.com/bastianeicher/lessmsi/

Some things to point out:

• LessMsi-cli.exe has the existing NDesk.Options-based command-line handling (without the OpenGuiCommand).
• LessMsi-gui.exe takes the first command-line argument (if any) and uses it as the defaultInputFile without any further processing.
• I merged the different bin directories in the project directories into a single shared bin alongside the src directory to reduce the amount of DLL copying required in the build process.
• I did not check that the unit tests still pass, because the ExpectedOutput CSVs are hardcoded to a different path than my local Git clone.

Let me know if everything looks OK to you.

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this is all merged now.

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