Metaprogramming in .NET, Kevin Hazzard, Jason Bock

Summary

Metaprogramming in .NET

is designed to help readers understand the basic concepts, advantages, and potential pitfalls of metaprogramming. It introduces core concepts in clear, easy-to-follow language and then it takes you on a deep dive into the tools and techniques you'll use to implement them in your .NET code. You'll explore plenty of real-world examples that reinforce key concepts. When you finish, you'll be able to build high-performance, metaprogramming-enabled software with confidence.

About the Technology

When you write programs that create or modify other programs, you are metaprogramming. In .NET, you can use reflection as well as newer concepts like code generation and scriptable software. The emerging Roslyn project exposes the .NET compiler as an interactive API, allowing compile-time code analysis and just-in-time refactoring.

About this Book

Metaprogramming in .NET

is a practical introduction to the use of metaprogramming to improve the performance and maintainability of your code. This book avoids abstract theory and instead teaches you solid practices you'll find useful immediately. It introduces core concepts like code generation and application composition in clear, easy-to-follow language.

Written for readers comfortable with C# and the .NET framework—no prior experience with metaprogramming is required.

What's Inside

Metaprogramming concepts in plain language

Creating scriptable software

Code generation techniques

The Dynamic Language Runtime

About the Authors

Kevin Hazzard

is a Microsoft MVP, consultant, teacher, and developer community leader in the mid-Atlantic USA.

Jason Bock

is an author, Microsoft MVP, and the leader of the Twin Cities Code Camp.

"An excellent way to start fully using the power of metaprogramming."

—From the Foreword by Rockford Lhotka, Creator of the CSLA .NET Framework

Table of Contents

PART 1 DEMYSTIFYING METAPROGRAMMING

Metaprogramming concepts

Exploring code and metadata with reflection

PART 2 TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING CODE

The Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4)

Generating code with the CodeDOM

Generating code with Reflection.Emit

Generating code with expressions

Generating code with IL rewriting

PART 3 LANGUAGES AND TOOLS

The Dynamic Language Runtime

Languages and tools

Managing the .NET Compiler

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