Use this library to format sql from a .net framework app? about sqltoolsservice

[kburtram]

@clement911 this app uses a JSON-RPC interface to drive it's functionality. If you launch it as a child process and send the correct set of methods to connect, load a script file and then execute formatting commands then this should work.

It's possible to also link to the assembly directly and interact directly with classes. Though we don't do this anywhere except in the test projects. We currently aren't creating a nuget package, primarily since (1) no one's asked yet 😄 and (2) the primary use case is JSON-RPC over stdio which doesn't require a .Net reference to consume.

You should be able to grab the latest release and link directly to the DLL files AFAIK. If you hit issues with this please let me know. If consuming this component as a .Net reference works well we can look into releasing as a Nuget package to simplify this scenario.

[clement911]

Got it.
Well, consider this an official feature request ;)
I had a look at the codebase and yes, it's clear tath the formatting API (and other APIs) is not designed to be consumed directly by other .net code. It would be pretty awkward. Probably too awkward for us to get deep into it, but maybe something to think about for a future release?
We could totally use a nicely packaged nugget that offers those services such as formatting, and intellisense.
You see, we are building a .net web app where users can write their own queries in the browser.
It seems pretty overkill for us to spin up a service, but we would definitely use it as an API.
Hopefully you can move in that direction without rocking the boat too much. It sounds like all the hard bits are already there!