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Roslyn Cookbook

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Roslyn Cookbook

Overview of this book

Open-sourcing the C# and Visual Basic compilers is one of the most appreciated things by the .NET community, especially as it exposes rich code analysis APIs to analyze and edit code. If you want to use Roslyn API to write powerful extensions and contribute to the C# developer tool chain, then this book is for you. Additionally, if you are just a .NET developer and want to use this rich Roslyn-based functionality in Visual Studio to improve the code quality and maintenance of your code base, then this book is also for you. This book is divided into the following broad modules: 1. Writing and consuming analyzers/fixers (Chapters 1 - 5): You will learn to write different categories of Roslyn analyzers and harness and configure analyzers in your C# projects to catch quality, security and performance issues. Moving ahead, you will learn how to improve code maintenance and readability by using code fixes and refactorings and also learn how to write them. 2. Using Roslyn-based agile development features (Chapters 6 and 7): You will learn how to improve developer productivity in Visual Studio by using features such as live unit testing, C# interactive and scripting. 3. Contributing to the C# language and compiler tool chain (Chapters 8 - 10): You will see the power of open-sourcing the Roslyn compiler via the simple steps this book provides; thus, you will contribute a completely new C# language feature and implement it in the Roslyn compiler codebase. Finally, you will write simple command line tools based on the Roslyn service API to analyze and edit C# code.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Dedication

Sending a Roslyn pull request to contribute to next version of C# compiler and VS IDE


In this section, we will walk you through the steps to follow to send a pull request to contribute to the next version of the Roslyn compilers and Visual Studio IDE.

Getting Started

You need to ensure that you have installed Git tools, VS2017 with .NET development and VS Extensiblity workloads and have enlisted and built Roslyn sources. For reference, see the recipe, Setting up Roslyn enlistment, at the start of this chapter.

How to do it...

  1. It is recommended that you create a Roslyn issue at https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues for your planned work and also discuss it with Roslyn team members prior to coding to avoid any unnecessary or redundant work.
  2. Make the source changes that you would like to contribute to the Roslyn code base in your local enlistment. For example, execute the recipe, Implementing a new semantic error in the C# compiler code base, covered earlier in this chapter.
  3. Add sufficient unit...