Manipulating the IL of an assembly as part of a build requires a significant amount of plumbing code. This plumbing code involves knowledge of both the MSBuild and Visual Studio APIs. Fody attempts to elimination that plumbing code through an extensible add-in model.
This technique of "weaving" in new instructions is fantastically powerful. You can turn simple public properties into full INotifyPropertyChanged implementations, add checks for null arguments, add Git hashs to your Assemblies, even make all your string comparisons case insensitive.
Users of the NotifyPropertyWeaver extension who are migrating to Fody will want to use NuGet to Install the PropertyChanged.Fody package along with Fody itself to get the same functionality as before. This is because Fody is a general purpose weaver with plugins while NotifyPropertyWeaver was specific to one scenario. That scenario now lives in the PropertyChanged addin. See Converting from NotifyPropertyWeaver for more information
- Injection of the MSBuild task into the build pipeline
- Resolving the location of the assembly and pdb
- Abstracts the complexities of logging to MSBuild
- Reads the assembly and pdb into the Mono.Cecil object model
- Re-applying the strong name if necessary
- Saving the assembly and pdb
Fody Uses Mono.Cecil and an add-in based approach to modifying the IL of .net assemblies at compile time.
- No install required to build
- No attributes required
- No references required
- Supports .net 3.5, .net 4, .net 4.5, Silverlight 4, Silverlight 5, Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 8, Metro on Windows 8, Mono, MonoTouch, MonoDroid and PCL
There is a Visual Studio addin
See SampleUsage for an introduction on using Fody.
The name "Fody" comes from the small birds that belong to the weaver family Ploceidae.
- BasicFodyAddin A simple project meant to illustrate how to build an addin.
- FodyAddinSamples is a single solution that contains a working copy of every fody addin.
- Anotar Simplifies logging through a static class and some IL manipulation.
- AsyncErrorHandling Integrates error handling into async and TPL code.
- BasicFodyAddin A simple project meant to illustrate how to build an addin.
- Caseless Change string comparisons to be case insensitive.
- Catel For transforming automatic properties into Catel properties.
- EmptyConstructor Adds an empty constructor to classes even if a non empty one is defined.
- ExtraConstraints Facilitates adding constraints for Enum and Delegate to types and methods.
- Fielder Converts public fields to public properties.
- Freezable Implements the Freezable pattern.
- InfoOf Provides
methodof,propertyofandfieldofequivalents oftypeof. - JetBrainsAnnotations Modifies an assembly so you can leverage JetBrains Annotations but don't need to deploy JetBrainsAnnotations.dll.
- MethodDecorator Decorate arbitrary methods to run code before and after invocation.
- MethodTimer Injects method timing code.
- Mixins A mixin is a class that provides a certain functionality to be inherited or just reused by a subclass.
- ModuleInit Adds a module initializer to an assembly.
- NullGuard Adds null argument checks to an assembly
- Obsolete Helps keep usages of ObsoleteAttribute consistent.
- PropertyChanged Injects INotifyPropertyChanged code into properties.
- PropertyChanging Injects INotifyPropertyChanging code into properties.
- Publicize Converts non-public members to public hidden members.
- Stamp Stamps an assembly with git data.
- Validar Injects IDataErrorInfo or INotifyDataErrorInfo code into a class at compile time.
- Virtuosity Change all members to virtual.
- AddinSearchPaths
- DeployingAddinsAsNugets
- Home
- HowToWriteAnAddin
- InSolutionWeaving
- ModuleWeaver
- PdbReWritingAndDebugging
- ReleaseNotes
- SampleUsage
- Setup
- SignedAssemblies
- SupportedRuntimesAndIde
- TaskAddsAFlagInterface
- TaskCouldNotBeLoaded
- VSIXPackage
- WeavingTaskOptions
- Mono Support
http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/
http://www.jetbrains.com/TeamCity/
For supplying a build server
