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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

Implementing lowering/code generation support for a new C# language feature


Lowering is an intermediate phase that executes after binding and transforms high level bound trees into simplified bound trees. These simplified bound trees are provided to the Code Generation phase and converted into MSIL and emitted into a .NET assembly. This section will enable you to add the lowering support for a new C# language feature: Switch operator (?::). This will enable you to write, compile, and correctly execute C# programs with the new operator. For details on the intended functionality of this operator, read the section, New language feature: Switch Operator (?::) at the start of this chapter. For details on the grammar and syntax definitions for this operator, read the first recipe of this chapter, Designing syntax and grammar for a new C# language feature.

Getting Started

You need to ensure that you have enlisted and built Roslyn sources with VS2017 tag on your machine. For further guidance, refer...