How to parse .proto file into a FileDescriptor in C#?
问题 My goal is exactly the same as stated in this issue on github: how to read an existing .proto file and get a FileDescriptor from it I cannot use the suggested "workaround", for 2 reasons: I have "plain" .proto files, i.e.: they are text files, just like good old addressbook.proto they are not self-describing I do not want to invoke the protoc compiler as an external application. According to Marc this is possible with protobuf-net library: Without a compiled schema, you would need a runtime