Chapter 4. Generating code with the CodeDOM
This chapter covers
- Understanding the CodeDOM
- The code providers classes
- Adding objects to a code graph
- Metaprogramming with the CodeDOM
Web browsers have a Document Object Model (DOM) for creating windows and managing the navigation between pages. HTML has a DOM for describing the content and structure of those pages. JavaScript has a DOM for automating the others. These models are appropriately called DOMs because they’re technologies for the World Wide Web, which is a largely document-oriented system.
Given the range of roles that a DOM can fill, what do you think Microsoft’s CodeDOM does? It could be used to describe code. As you learned in chapters 1 and 2, .NET provides a rich metadata ...
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