Code Generation with Roslyn

by Nick Harrison

1. Introduction 2. Putting Business Logic in Tables 3. Pulling Table Driven Logic into Code 4. An Introduction to Roslyn 5. Generating Code 6. Deploying Generated Code 7. Reflecting on Generated Code 8. Best Practices

124 pages, Paperback

Published March 6, 2017

Reviews

[Dev · Rating 2 out of 5]

Easy read, very short book only a 100 pages. It's feels more like a multiple section blog post.
It has one use case to convert lookup table configuration to generated code using Roslyn. It does break this down per chapter. I would have liked different use case scenarios and examples for code generation. Why the author doesn't provide source code I really don't know as the code sample is complicated.

[Sebastian Gebski]

The general idea for this book was interesting -> to present code generation (using Roslyn) based on very practical scenario. Unfortunately it takes about 30% of the book just for scenario introduction ... Roslyn-related part is rather brief & unimpressive - each of the most crucial Roslyn APIs gets its own section, but they don't really explore the topic into the very depths. Good starter? Yes, indeed - understandable & fits the scenario. But nothing more than that.

To summarize:
* if you need a starter for Roslyn, it's ok
* if you want to learn more about various scenarios of using Roslyn (pre-/Core, F#/VB, reading solutions / reading binaries, inspection/generation, etc.), you'll have to look somewhere else
* value to price ratio is poor