Generating DLL assembly dynamically at run time

Question

Currently I have some code that is being generated dynamically. In other words, a C# .cs file is created dynamically by the program, and the intention is to include this C# file in another project.

The challenge is that I would like to generate a .DLL file instead of generating a C# .cs file so that it could be referenced by any kind of .NET application (not only C#) and therefore be more useful.

Answer 1

using System.CodeDom.Compiler; using System.Diagnostics; using Microsoft.CSharp;  CSharpCodeProvider codeProvider = new CSharpCodeProvider(); ICodeCompiler icc = codeProvider.CreateCompiler(); System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerParameters parameters = new CompilerParameters(); parameters.GenerateExecutable = false; parameters.OutputAssembly = "AutoGen.dll"; CompilerResults results = icc.CompileAssemblyFromSource(parameters, yourCodeAsString); 

Adapted from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304655