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.
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and
Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
What's Inside
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Metaprogramming concepts in plain language
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Creating scriptable software
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Code generation techniques
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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
- Metaprogramming concepts
- Exploring code and metadata with reflection
- 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
- The Dynamic Language Runtime
- Languages and tools
- Managing the .NET Compiler
