Visual Studio extension for evaluating expressions at edit time

1. Install Visual Studio 2015 Comunity
2. Tools -> Extensions and Updates... -> Online -> search for "expression viewer"

• or look in the Visual Studio galery: https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/9e4feaed-0365-49ef-905a-66bd0e414618

1. Install Visual Studio 2015 Comunity
2. Start VS -> File -> New Project -> Extensibility

• Download the .NET Compiler Platform SDK

3. Clone this repo

• git clone https://github.com/cristiingineru/ExpressionViewer.git

4. Open ExpressionViewer.sln
5. Tools -> NuGet Package Manager -> Package Manager Console

• make sure the default project is Extension

6. Install base Roslyn package

• Install-Package Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Common -Version 1.0.0

7. Install Roslyn for C# projects

• Install-Package Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Workspaces -Version 1.0.0

8. Change the default project to ExpressionViewerTests
9. Install the same two packages again
10. Just press the Run button or run tests

A small dialog that can be used to interactively inspect the syntax tree of your C# code. It cames with .NET Compiler Platform SDK.

It can be used to generate code that builds a C# syntax tree. It's usefull when a large piece of code needs to be generated or when someone is not familiar with the Roslyn API. http://roslynquoter.azurewebsites.net/

.NET assembly decompiler and browser. http://ilspy.net/