One of the great new features within .NET are the little known CodeDOM classes. Although, not something that you're going to use in your day-to-day winforms development, the CodeDOM is something that I wanted to bring to peoples attention. It is certainly a very useful skill when it comes to developing addins or other software that requires language independant code generartion or on the fly assemblies compilation.

To start with I will explain some of the advantages of the CodeDOM and times where I can imagine it being of use. We'll then go on to explaining the first steps into creating simple hieratical objects know as CodeDOM graphs, or CodeDOM trees, that can be taken and built into assemblies or simply used to output source code as shown in the following examples.

The main CodeDOM advantage is language independent code generation.

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