Generate C# automatic properties with Codedom

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is there a way Generate C# automatic properties with Codedom or maybe an other set of libreries that i can use ?

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered May 26 '14 at 20:01

You can use CodeSnippetTypeMember class for that purpose.

For example:

    CodeTypeDeclaration newType = new CodeTypeDeclaration("TestType");
    CodeSnippetTypeMember snippet = new CodeSnippetTypeMember();
    snippet.Comments.Add(new CodeCommentStatement("this is integer property", true));
    snippet.Text="public int IntergerProperty { get; set; }";
    newType.Members.Add(snippet);

score 6 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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No, it's not: C# CodeDom Automatic Property

Take a look into this article to get some useful examples

edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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answered Jan 23 '10 at 10:37

Rubens Farias

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so are there any other libraries that i can use ? – Hannoun Yassir Jan 23 '10 at 10:39
@Yassir It's really not that hard to create a backing field and use them in getter/setter. – chakrit Jan 23 '10 at 10:44
you dont need; as Marc Gravell said, you need to implement it yourself, as they are just a compiler trick (i.e. .net compiler creates a private variable to hold your automatic property value) – Rubens Farias Jan 23 '10 at 10:44
actually i'm not compiling the generated code i add it to a project so i need the generated classes to have automatic properties – Hannoun Yassir Jan 23 '10 at 10:47
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In that case, you could to use a `CodeSnippetStatement` and hardcode that property – Rubens Farias Jan 23 '10 at 11:36

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 23 '10 at 10:58

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CodeDom is supposed to be some sort of AST which can be converted to multiple languages (typically C# and VB.NET). Therefore, you'll not find features which are syntactic sugar of a specific language in CodeDom.

answered Jan 23 '10 at 10:58

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 06 '11 at 11:34

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Actually the comments about it being easy to use a CodeSnippetStatement are misleading because CodeTypeDeclaration has no statements collection that you can add those snippets to.

answered Oct 06 '11 at 11:34

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score -2 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 07 '15 at 17:55

You can do this: According to How to: Create a Class Using CodeDOM

        // Declare the ID Property.
        CodeMemberProperty IDProperty = new CodeMemberProperty();
        IDProperty.Attributes = MemberAttributes.Public;
        IDProperty.Name = "Id";
        IDProperty.HasGet = true;
        IDProperty.HasSet = true;
        IDProperty.Type = new CodeTypeReference(typeof(System.Int16));
        IDProperty.Comments.Add(new CodeCommentStatement(
        "Id is identity"));
        targetClass.Members.Add(IDProperty);

This does not work, as it generates two empty `set` and `get` methods which will result in compiling errors. The `CodeSnippetTypeMember` (http://stackoverflow.com/a/23876973/191148) is the solution — Mohsen Afshin, Feb 19 '16 at 09:39

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