Dhananjay Kumar

In previous post I discussed about Roslyn Syntax API: First Look .

In pervious approach I traversed manually in Syntax Tree to the Method level and started from Compilation Unit level to get the Method Arguments. Rather than manually navigating the Syntax Tree, you can use LINQ to get the parameter in the function. We can directly apply LINQ on Syntax Tree.

If you remember from last post out Syntax Tree was as below,

Now if we want to print method name using LINQ in Syntax tree then,

Underneath LINQ is also doing the manual traversing of the Syntax tree. When you execute above code you will get output as below,

If you have more than one parameters in the method then you can print them like below,

And then you can traverse using foreach to print all the method names. For your reference all the code discussed in this post is given below,

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Roslyn.Compilers;
using Roslyn.Compilers.CSharp;

namespace ConsoleApplication30
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{

SyntaxTree tree = SyntaxTree.ParseCompilationUnit(
@"class Animal
{
void Display(string animalName,int abc)
{
Console.WriteLine(""Animal name is "" + animalName);
}
}");
var root = (CompilationUnitSyntax) tree.Root;

var paraMeterList = from r in root.DescendentNodes().OfType<MethodDeclarationSyntax>()
where r.Identifier.ValueText == "Display"
select r.ParameterList.Parameters.First();
Console.WriteLine(paraMeterList.Single().ToString());

var AllParaMeterList = from r in root.DescendentNodes().OfType<MethodDeclarationSyntax>()
where r.Identifier.ValueText == "Display"
select r.ParameterList.Parameters;
foreach (var r in AllParaMeterList)
{

foreach (var a in r)
{
Console.WriteLine(a.ToString());
}

}
Console.ReadKey(true);

}
}
}

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When you execute above listed code, you will get output as below,

In this way you can traverse Syntax tree using LINQ. I hope this post is useful. Thanks for reading

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