How to generate SQL CLR stored procedure installation script w/o Visual Studio

Question

I am working on CLR stored procedure using VS2010. I need to generate standalone deployment script to install this procedure at customer servers. Now I am using Visual Studio which generate such script when I press F5 and try to debug SP on DB server. This script is placed at bin\Debug\MyStoredProcedure.sql file. It looks like this:

USE [$(DatabaseName)]

GO
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM tempdb..sysobjects WHERE id=OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#tmpErrors')) DROP TABLE #tmpErrors
GO
CREATE TABLE #tmpErrors (Error int)
GO
SET XACT_ABORT ON
GO
SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ COMMITTED
GO
BEGIN TRANSACTION
GO
PRINT N'Dropping [dbo].[spMyStoredProcedure]...';


GO
DROP PROCEDURE [dbo].[spMyStoredProcedure];


GO
IF @@ERROR <> 0
   AND @@TRANCOUNT > 0
    BEGIN
        ROLLBACK;
    END

IF @@TRANCOUNT = 0
    BEGIN
        INSERT  INTO #tmpErrors (Error)
        VALUES                 (1);
        BEGIN TRANSACTION;
    END


GO
PRINT N'Dropping [MyStoredProcedure]...';


GO
DROP ASSEMBLY [MyStoredProcedure];


GO
IF @@ERROR <> 0
   AND @@TRANCOUNT > 0
    BEGIN
        ROLLBACK;
    END

IF @@TRANCOUNT = 0
    BEGIN
        INSERT  INTO #tmpErrors (Error)
        VALUES                 (1);
        BEGIN TRANSACTION;
    END


GO
PRINT N'Creating [MyStoredProcedure]...';


GO
CREATE ASSEMBLY [MyStoredProcedure]
    AUTHORIZATION [dbo]
-- here should be long hex string with assembly binary
    FROM 0x4D5A90000300000004000000FFFCD21546869732070726F6772616D...000000000000000000 
    WITH PERMISSION_SET = SAFE;


GO
IF @@ERROR <> 0
   AND @@TRANCOUNT > 0
    BEGIN
        ROLLBACK;
    END

IF @@TRANCOUNT = 0
    BEGIN
        INSERT  INTO #tmpErrors (Error)
        VALUES                 (1);
        BEGIN TRANSACTION;
    END


GO
PRINT N'Creating [dbo].[spMyStoredProcedure]...';


GO
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[spMyStoredProcedure]
@reference UNIQUEIDENTIFIER, @results INT OUTPUT, @errormessage NVARCHAR (4000) OUTPUT
AS EXTERNAL NAME [MyStoredProcedure].[MyCompany.MyProduct.MyStoredProcedureClass].[MyStoredProcedureMethod]


GO
IF @@ERROR <> 0
   AND @@TRANCOUNT > 0
    BEGIN
        ROLLBACK;
    END

IF @@TRANCOUNT = 0
    BEGIN
        INSERT  INTO #tmpErrors (Error)
        VALUES                 (1);
        BEGIN TRANSACTION;
    END


GO
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM #tmpErrors) ROLLBACK TRANSACTION
GO
IF @@TRANCOUNT>0 BEGIN
PRINT N'The transacted portion of the database update succeeded.'
COMMIT TRANSACTION
END
ELSE PRINT N'The transacted portion of the database update failed.'
GO
DROP TABLE #tmpErrors
GO

I am wondering, is it possible to generate such script without Visual Studio? For example, what if I build solution with MSBuild and then generate this script with some tool? I believe, that if I read assembly as byte array and then serialize it to hex string and insert into script template - it could work, but maybe there is some easier standard solution?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Alternately, assuming you have the assembly deployed direct from visual studio to some test SQL server; create a standalone deployment script by right clicking the assembly in SSMS (management studio) and select:

Script assembly as -> Create To...

This will write the hex string representing the DLL for you in an SQL script you can use for a single file deployment.