In this episode, I was joined by Jason Bock to chat about the new C#9 source generators! Writing code that writes code! We covered a ton of content, covering Source Generators, the Compiler API, Syntax Trees, Semantic Models, Expression Trees, and much much more!

Links from the show

Jason’s Links

• Twitter
• Blog
• Github
• YouTube

Jason’s books

• Metaprogramming in .NET
• Applied .NET Attributes
• CIL Programming: Under the Hood of .Net

Other links from the show

• Listener mention tweet from Nick Kirby (update: and the app he wrote is also now available!)
• Guitar photo of us both tweet (and the similar mentioned DDD episode tweet)
• Rocks
• PartiallyApplied
• SourceGeneratorDemos
• InlineMapping
• Scribian templating library
• Pex / IntelliTest
• Mutation testing lightning talk with Stefan Pölz
• Andrew Lock’s post about using source generators to find all routable components in a Blazor WebAssembly app
• Adventures in .NET podcast episode with Jason on C#9
• Benchmark.NET

References

• Introducing C# Source Generators
• Generating Code in C#
• New C# Source Generator Samples
• Source Generators Cookbook
• C# Source Generators - Write Code that Writes Code
• Source Generators in .NET 5 with ReSharper
• .NET 5 Source Generators - MediatR - CQRS - OMG!
• A list of C# Source Generators
• Using C# Source Generators to create an external DSL
• Persisting output files from source generators
• Getting started with the roslyn APIs: Writing code with code
• C# 9 records as strongly-typed ids - Part 5: final bits and conclusion
• Consider using a source generator to generate scoped css files #30841
• C# Source Generators