[Mono-dev] Edit and Continue / Function body rewrite

Brian Crowell mono-devel at fluggo.com
Fri Jul 7 15:24:59 EDT 2006


David Srbecky wrote:
> Yes, you are right - changing running program is probably extremely 
> difficult, but I want to use Microsoft runtime which has this 
> functionality already implemented and available via really simple API. 
> So this is not a problem.
> 
> The problem is that I need to get the new IL code and metadata for the 
> new function from System.Reflection.Emit.

I'm confused. The way I read this, you want to use System.Reflection.Emit to 
take a source code change, turn it into real code, and patch a running program, 
all while running under the .NET Framework (not Mono). Is that it?

--Brian



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