What do you use to generate code in .NET?

Question

What are you using code generation for? What are typical scenarios that allow you to get real value from generating C # code at runtime ? In particular: what are you using for the CodeDOM namespace for?

Answer 1

Codegen on the fly? Do you mean while working? I use this to create high-performance code access that could be used by other sensible uses. In most cases, you can use things like Delegate.CreateDelegate, but there are times when ILGenerator, etc. Have their place.

I use this in protobuf-net to access fields at runtime (by creating a wrapper, note the properties use Delegate.CreateDelegate), and in HyperDescriptor to create a faster implementation PropertyDescriptor. But in both cases I use ILGeneratordirectly - not CodeDom.

In fact, personally, I really would not have studied CodeDom if I hadn't; for runtime to work, I would first look at Expression. I have an article on InfoQ discussing this, or various things here on SO or on my blog that might be interesting.

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