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Roslyn Cookbook

You're reading from   Roslyn Cookbook Compiler as a Service, Code Analysis, Code Quality and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286832
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Manish Vasani Manish Vasani
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Preface 1. Writing Diagnostic Analyzers FREE CHAPTER 2. Consuming Diagnostic Analyzers in .NET Projects 3. Writing IDE Code Fixes, Refactorings, and Intellisense Completion Providers 4. Improving Code Maintenance of C# Code Base 5. Catch Security Vulnerabilities and Performance Issues in C# Code 6. Live Unit Testing in Visual Studio Enterprise 7. C# Interactive and Scripting 8. Contribute Simple Functionality to Roslyn C# Compiler Open Source Code 9. Design and Implement a New C# Language Feature 10. Command-Line Tools Based on Roslyn API

Creating, debugging, and executing a CodeFixProvider to fix a compiler warning


Code fix providers are IDE extensions to fix diagnostics in source code, which are reported by compilers and/or analyzers. These are built on top of Roslyn's Workspaces layer and operate on the current document being edited. When the user invokes a command such as Ctrl + dot in Visual Studio editor, the IDE code fix engine computes all the diagnostics in the current line span and identifies all the code fix providers that have registered to fix one or more of the reported diagnostics. Each of these code fix providers are then invoked with a code fix context containing the current document, diagnostics, and span. Fixers operate on the underlying syntax tree associated with the document by adding, removing, or editing the syntax nodes within the tree, and returning the new document with the fixed code. They might also alter the contents of the containing project or solution to fix the diagnostic. When the user commits...

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