Developer id

Why a local dll needs your id, and where to set it.

Deepchart loads a dll from the local indicators folder only when the dll was built for the user who is logged in. The dll says who it was built for with a piece of metadata: your developer id.

A dll without the id, or with the id of another user, is skipped. The reason is written in the log of the app:

Indicators of MyIndicators.dll not loaded: DeepchartDevId missing is not the one of the user

Where to find your id

This page does not yet say where the developer id is shown. Until it does, ask Deepchart support for yours.

Where to set it

In src/DeepchartIndicators.csproj:

<DeepchartDevId Condition="'$(DeepchartDevId)' == ''">YOUR-DEV-ID</DeepchartDevId>

or on the command line, which keeps the id out of the repository:

dotnet build src/DeepchartIndicators.csproj -p:DeepchartDevId=your-id

The project writes it in the dll as assembly metadata:

<AssemblyMetadata Include="DeepchartDevId" Value="$(DeepchartDevId)" />

which is the same as this line in a source file:

[assembly: System.Reflection.AssemblyMetadata("DeepchartDevId", "your-id")]

The build warns when the id is still the placeholder.

What the id is not

The id identifies you as the author of the dll on your own installation. It is not a license and it does not protect the dll: a dll built with your id is loaded only by your account. To let other users have your indicators, see Sharing indicators.