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Asked: 2026-05-11T22:05:52+00:00

Does anyone know of a good .NET library that allows me to parse source

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Does anyone know of a good .NET library that allows me to parse source code files, but not only .NET source code files (like java, perl, ruby, etc)?

I need programmatic access to the contents of various source code files (e.g. class/method /parameter names, types, etc.).

Has anyone come across something like this? I know within .NET it is reasonably possible and there are some libraries out there, but I need that to be abstracted to more types of programming languages.

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  1. Editorial Team

    A few options:

    1. You could pick a parsing framework that has a lot of existing grammars (like Antlr or newer ones like Irony) and use that. This will offer the most fidelity.
    2. If you could stick to just .NET languages, you could use the Common Compiler Infrastructure tools to read the data from a compiled file.
    3. You could do a heuristic based approach like the SyntaxHighlighter component uses.
    4. You could piggy-back off existing tools that offer pluggable syntax highlighting files like VIM. You’d have to create or find a parser that understood those files though.
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