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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed
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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

by Alessandro Del Sole
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
Sams
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Generating Code at Runtime with Reflection.Emit

The System.Reflection.Emit namespace provides objects for generating assemblies, types, and type members at runtime. You need to perform the following operations sequentially:

1. Create an in-memory assembly within the current application domain with an instance of the AssemblyBuilder class.

2. Create a module for containing types via an instance of the ModuleBuilder class.

3. Create types with instances of the TypeBuilder class.

4. Add members to the TypeBuilder via XBuilder objects, such as MethodBuilder, FieldBuilder, and PropertyBuilder.

5. Save the assembly to disk if required.

The code in Listing 44.4 demonstrates how to dynamically create a simple implementation of the Person class with ...

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