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Yanshof
Yanshof

Reputation: 9926

How to create dll that contain class in runTime ?

I have some class ( simple class ) and i want to compile in runtime this class and create ( in runtime ) some dll that will contain this class.

Is there some way to do it ?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2766

Answers (2)

Alexander R
Alexander R

Reputation: 2476

You can use the CSharpCodeProvider to complile code at run time. See this MSDN blog.

PS. Found by a quick google search ;)

Upvotes: 1

Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet

Reputation: 1500465

Yes, use CSharpCodeProvider.

You can read the sample code for "Snippy" that I used for C# in Depth - it does exactly this sort of thing.

You can ask CSharpCodeProvider to write to a file or build the assembly in memmory.

Sample code:

using System;
using System.CodeDom.Compiler;
using Microsoft.CSharp;

class Test
{
    static void Main()
    {
        var provider = new CSharpCodeProvider();
        var options = new CompilerParameters {
            OutputAssembly = "Foo.dll"
        };
        string source = "public class Foo {}";

        provider.CompileAssemblyFromSource(options, new[] { source });
    }
}

Upvotes: 7

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