Reader small image

You're reading from  Refactoring with C#

Product typeBook
Published inNov 2023
Reading LevelIntermediate
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781835089989
Edition1st Edition
Languages
Right arrow
Author (1)
Matt Eland
Matt Eland
author image
Matt Eland

Matt Eland is a Microsoft MVP in Artificial Intelligence (AI) who has been working with .NET since 2001. Matt has served as a senior engineer, software engineering manager, and .NET programming instructor. He is currently an AI specialist and senior consultant at Leading EDJE near Columbus, Ohio, where he helps companies with their software engineering and data science needs using C# and related technologies. Matt speaks and writes in his community and co-organizes the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group while pursuing a master's degree in data analytics.
Read more about Matt Eland

Right arrow

Understanding Roslyn Analyzers

Before we can go into what a Roslyn Analyzer is, let’s talk about Roslyn.

Roslyn is the codename for the reimagined .NET Compiler Platform that was released alongside Visual Studio 2015. Since “.NET Compiler Platform” is a lot to say, most people refer to this as the Roslyn compiler or simply Roslyn for short.

Before Roslyn, if a tool wanted to understand C#, VB, or F# source code, developers needed to write their own language parser for these code files. This involved a significant amount of time and complexity, and this effort needed to be repeated every time these programming languages changed. This led to tools being slower to support new language features, lost productivity, and bugs.

One of the explicit goals of the Rosyln compiler was to provide visibility into the structure of code in a standardized way. This way, plugins could work with the Roslyn APIs to get live information about code without having to write their...

lock icon
The rest of the page is locked
Previous PageNext Page
You have been reading a chapter from
Refactoring with C#
Published in: Nov 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781835089989

Author (1)

author image
Matt Eland

Matt Eland is a Microsoft MVP in Artificial Intelligence (AI) who has been working with .NET since 2001. Matt has served as a senior engineer, software engineering manager, and .NET programming instructor. He is currently an AI specialist and senior consultant at Leading EDJE near Columbus, Ohio, where he helps companies with their software engineering and data science needs using C# and related technologies. Matt speaks and writes in his community and co-organizes the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group while pursuing a master's degree in data analytics.
Read more about Matt Eland