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The Forms Designer in Visual Studio 2005 takes away a lot of the drudgery of GUI development. All you do is drag and drop the components you need onto a panel, arrange them where you want them, and VS will generate the code to initialize them automatically; all you need to do is write event-handlers...

This is an interesting question, and the answer is a bit more than just "historical reasons." It's hard. Yes, it's just plain harder to parse code than it is to emit it. Parsing code is a good portion of what compilers do, and since most compilers are written in native code, this probably means duplicating...

The CodeDom provides a powerful way for applications to emit source code in a variety of languages. CodeDom provides necessary infrastructure to generate common language features that are necessary across the languages instead of providing ways to generate every single feature that a high level languages...

CodeDom now supports a way to generate code for CodeTypeMember. In V1.1 there is no way to generate a method without a type information using CodeDom. There are several tools and applications including ASP.Net had requirements to create a method without the type or namespace information. Currently one...

I recently gave a talk on CodeDom for compiler writers , and I thought I would adapt some of those slides here as a basic intro to CodeDom. CodeDom, or Code Document Object Model, is a feature which lets you generate code and assemblies in a language neutral way. It's also extensible, meaning it's possible...

There's a fair bit written about using CodeDom, but samples showing how to implement your own provider have been quite thin on the ground . Fortunately Eden Li , a CLR intern this summer, produced a couple of useful CodeDom provider samples now live on the MSDN BCL site : MSIL provider : consumes 1.1...