Where would you use C# Runtime Compilation?

Question

I happened upon a brief discussion recently on another site about C# runtime compilation recently while searching for something else and thought the idea was interesting. Have

Answer 1

Well, all C# code is run-time compiled, since it's a JIT (just-in-time) compiler. I assume you are referring to Reflection.Emit to create classes etc. on the fly. Here's an example I have seen recently in the Xml-Rpc.Net library.

I create a C# interface that has the same signature as an XML-RPC service's method calls, e.g.

IMyProxy : IXmlRpcProxy
{
    [XmlRpcMethod]
    int Add(int a, int b);
}

Then in my code I call something like

IMyProxy proxy = (IMyProxy)XmlRcpFactory.Create(typeof(IMyProxy));

This uses run-time code generation to create a fully functional proxy for me, so I can use it like this:

int result = proxy.Add(1, 2);

This then handles the XML-RPC call for me. Pretty cool.