List of Listings

Chapter 1. Metaprogramming concepts

Listing 1.1. Dynamic Number Conversion (HTML and JavaScript)

Listing 1.2. DataSource reflection logic (C#)

Listing 1.3. Optimized DataSource binding logic (C#)

Listing 1.4. Assembling the “Hello, world!” program with the CodeDOM (C#)

Listing 1.5. Generating source code from a CodeNamespace (C#)

Listing 1.6. CodeDOM-generated C# source code for “Hello, world!”

Listing 1.7. CodeDOM-generated C++ source code for “Hello, world!”

Listing 1.8. Assembling a lambda Expression manually

Listing 1.9. A DynamicPredicate class using expression trees

Listing 1.10. Invoking the DynamicPredicate

Listing 1.11. MyExpandoObject: a DLR-based dynamic property bag

Listing 1.12. Exercising MyExpandoObject

Chapter 2. Exploring code and metadata with reflection

Listing 2.1. Creating an object via ConstructorInfo

Listing 2.2. Invoking a method on an object

Listing 2.3. Stress-testing a method invocation directly

Listing 2.4. Stress-testing a method invocation via reflection

Listing 2.5. Automatically discovering known types

Listing 2.6. Using reflection to generate a description of an object

Listing 2.7. Invoking a method via its name

Chapter 3. The Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4)

Listing 3.1. dynamic_max as a dynamic, generic (and inefficient) max function

Listing 3.2. greater.tt as a T4 template for generating typed max functions

Listing 3.3. greater.cs as abbreviated output from the greater.tt template