Question

I have the following problem, will try to describe it shortly.

In my program there is to be a possibility to compile a winform to an .exe by clicking on a button.

Now I tried to do it with CodeDom, so in my program I have the following line:

CompilerResults results = codeProvider.CompileAssemblyFromSource(parameters, text);

where codeProvider is CodeDomProvider and text is the source from where to compile.

Problem is the winform I need to save as an .exe has a class behind it that uses other classes and forms, and, since parameter ‘text’ is a string parameter, it has to include all those classes, which results in HUGE amount of code, not to mention plenty of mistakes. Here‘s an example of what I mean.

There must be other ways, question is, what are they? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

If you always use the same set of classes, it would be worth putting those common classes in a class library, and referring to that from the dynamically compiled code.

If they’re not the same in every case, it’s hard to see improvements you expect – if that much code has to be compiled, it has to be compiled, and there’s that much code which can have mistakes in it.