How to generate c# code?

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I'm writing a desktop application. It would need to generate c# code on client machines.

I thought of using CodeDOM (complex) or simple string manipulations (fragile). What else? Which way is recommended?

Bertvan · Accepted Answer · 2010-09-09 20:43:12Z

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T4? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb126445.aspx

answered Sep 9, 2010 at 20:43

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Yaron Naveh Over a year ago

AFAIK I'm not allowed to redistribute it, is it still the case?

Bertvan Over a year ago

@Yaron, what wouldn't you be allowed to distribute?

Chris Taylor Over a year ago

T4 can be used to generate classes from a template that in turn generate files are runtime, making this a possible option. See this link for more detail msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee844259.aspx.

Bertvan Over a year ago

If you're talking about runtime code generation, you might want to take a look at the ILGenerator class (IL.Emit()) msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/… However, I'm not very familiar with that myself, so won't be able to help you any further than the link :)

Yaron Naveh Over a year ago

I need to generate code at customer environment, not at design time. Does T$ fit this scenario, both technically and legaly?

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Keith Blows · Accepted Answer · 2010-09-10 06:31:08Z

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If you mean run dynamic code, then: CS-Script is the most mature solution. With CS-Script you could even roll your own template based, custom code generator, like the scripting used by MyGeneration.

answered Sep 10, 2010 at 6:31

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