Working with Roslyn

We often think about a compiler as a black box which produces an output from an input. Compilers were generally written in C++ because of speed, custom memory, file, and thread management needs. For example, the C# compiler takes .cs files in input and generates .dll files in output.

Now the new Microsoft compiler written in C# and VB, Roslyn, is not just a compiler; it's a .NET compiler platform that we can extend.

Getting ready

Learning to use all Roslyn APIs could be the subject of an entire book. In this recipe, we will just manipulate one of these APIs: the Syntax Trees API. We will create a Syntax Tree and we will analyze it.

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