I was introduced to project Orleans recently and currently doing some reading and proof-of-concepts.
In addition to the fact that almost all articles and tutorials I came across do not work as is now (mostly due to APIs changes), they also require the installation the Orleans SDK; which contains libraries, documentations, project templates, and so on.
I decided to do it the "hard way" and use the standard project templates (Console application and Class library), and NuGet; with some help from the boilerplate code from Orleans project templates (OrleansHostWrapper).
There is one thing I wasn't able to figure out how to do; which is generating the Grain factory/proxy. When I run the Silo I get the message:
Cannot find generated factory type for interface
Can anyone help in this? Is there another way to generate the factory without the need to install the Orleans SDK?
I have asked the question in Orleans Codeplex site, and got this answer from Sergey Bykov:
Microsoft.Orleans.Templates.Interfaces for Grain interface projects and Microsoft.Orleans.Templates.Grains for Grain implementation projects enable building those projects with no SDK installed.