Dotnet code generation overview by example

Introduction Code generation is a very interesting topic. Instead of just writing code you can write code to write code. You can do code generation at compile time (new fancy source generators) and at runtime (expressions, emit IL). Anyway the idea to create methods and classes at runtime sounds like a magic to me. Runtime code generation feature is used quite heavily under the hood of DI frameworks, ORMs, different types of object mappers etc....

October 3, 2021