The Sdl.ProjectAutomation.Core assembly contains generic project automation types and interfaces that are not specific to working with file-based projects. At the moment, the only implementation available is one that allows project automation of file-based SDL Trados Studio projects. In the future, other implementations might become available.

The main interface in this assembly is IProject, which represents a localization project and exposes all the generic operations that can be performed on a localization project. For specific information on file-based projects, see Sdl.ProjectAutoamtion.FileBased.

The Sdl.ProjectAutomation.FileBased assembly contains a specific implementation of the Project Automation API for working with file-based SDL Trados Studio projects.

The main class in this assembly is FileBasedProject, which implements the IProject interface. This class allows you to create new file-based localization projects or open existing ones and performs all the generic operations defined by IProject, plus a number of operations that are specific to file-based projects, like for instance running task sequences (see RunAutomaticTasks(Guid, String)).

A closely related assembly is Sdl.ProjectAutomation.Settings, which defines settings groups that provide access to settings that control various aspects of project execution. For more information on working with settings groups, refer to the Sdl.Core.Settings documentation.