How can I allow a user to enter a string into a winforms application and then use reflection to parse that string which can be executed at runtime?
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How can I allow a user to enter a string into a winforms application and then use reflection to parse that string which can be executed at runtime?
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Security holes galore, I think, unless you do this with the utmost care! If you really want to do this however, you’ll want to look into using the CodeDOM. Since C# is not (yet) a dynamic language, it does not have an
evalfeature, and dynamically compiling assemblies with the CodeDOM is the closest you’ll get.For an example, see my answer to this related question, which uses
CSharpCodeProvideralong with the CodeDOM to achieve the goal. Beware though, if you want to make your app even reasonably secure, you’ll want to run the code with its own AppDomain, and possibly its own process (with some form of IPC).