I understand that Microsoft's Compiler as a Service or Roslyn project was inspired by Mono Cecil. But what's the relationship between Mono Cecil and NRefactory? Does one use the other? Or ar...

What is CaaS (Compiler As A Service) in regards to the Roslyn project? How does using the Roslyn feature improve the performance of a C# application over the current C# 4.0 compiler? What are the...

Lisa Feigenbaum from Microsoft talks here about "Compiler as a service". I have read this would make it easier to build refactoring tools. How? Mono's CAAS is great but if Microsoft version is simi...

For example I have class Foo: INotifyPropertyChanged { public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged; public int Bar {get;set;} } Can I get the Foo class AST and rewrite Bar, in com...

Back at the PDC in 2008, in the C# futures talk by Anders Hejlsberg he talked about rewriting the C# compiler and providing a "compiler as a service" I certainly got the impression at the tim...

In Anders Hejlsberg's .NET 4.0 presentation he discussed in NET 5.0 ("or some future release") they are working on a "Compiler as a Service" model. Anders Hejlsberg's states: [source][1] "We want ...

Seeing that we'll probably get this feature in the next release what are some of the things you either think you'll be able to do or things you would like to use this feature to do? Personally, du...

It looks like both of these languages are dubbed as "what C# should have been", with hygenic macros, REPL, Compiler as a Serivce (CaaS), static + duck typing (way before C# had it). Are there any m...

Considering this question of SO, where whole C# in-memory compiler is being called. When only lexical and syntactic analyzing is required: parse text as a stream of lexemes, check them and exit. I...