There was a need to create .proto definition files from the definitions of a reverse engineered database first project. The approach taken was that of using System.Emit to generate the type definitions and feed those to protobuf-net and use its ability to generate the .proto files.

There are only three classes needed:

• ContextFinder
• ClassGenerator
• Program

The ContextFinder is pretty straight forward. It uses reflection to get all the generic parameters of DbSet<> properties within a DbContext. Then, ClassGenerator is used to copy the properties of the Types we harvested into a new type with the addition of adding ProtoContract and ProtoMember appropriately. Then, the Program class just loads the assembly from the file specified and runs the previously two mentioned classes.

https://gist.github.com/QiMata/368efca0829362327c8e6ea8b6678e9b