Introducing nGineer's Lexical Analyzer

okloeten — Fri, 16 Jul 2004 20:06:00 GMT

nGineer is a language analysis and code generation kit for .NET languages and specifically C# which is currently being developed.
Components of nGineer are released separately and more components will be released soon.

The Lexical Analyzer component of the nGineer toolkit is used to analyze the lexical grammar of C# code files.
The component offers great extensibility and one of its derivatives is webify which is a syntax coloring tool that can be downloaded along with the binaries and source of the component, or used in its online version.

I have also created a new articles category for nGineer and have posted two articles about the lexical analyzer:

I am aware that the .NET Framework contains a stub for a C# parser, but it is only a stub and I have been reassured by Jay that there are no plans to implement it at this point.

The next component to be released is the grammatical parser, but I have no date for its release, since there are several issues to be resolved first.
I'll keep you posted.

Please feel free to comment or contact me about this with any questions.

Introducing nGineer and its CodeDOM Generator

okloeten — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 22:02:00 GMT

The CodeDOM Generator component of the nGineer component suite persists Code Document Object Model object grids to Code Document Object Model object grids of themselves.
This would mean that if your tool generates a grid of Code DOM objects and you would like to see what that code would look like should it have been written as code, just send it through the CreateDOM method of the nGineer.CodeDOMGenerator class and you will receive a CodeCompileUnit with the code generated for your object grid.

The code is simple. Just type:

CodeCompileUnit generatedUnit = nGineer.CodeDOMGenerator.CreateDOM(unit);

Check out the project's page for examples and downloads.

Omer van Kloeten's .NET Zen : Tools: nGineer

Introducing nGineer's Lexical Analyzer

Introducing nGineer and its CodeDOM Generator