c# CODE TO EXECUTE A STRING AS SNIPPET

// CODE TO EXECUTE A STRING AS SNIPPET

            /*var watch = System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.StartNew();

            string sourceTemplate =

            @"using System;

              using System.Windows.Forms;

              namespace Foo {

                    public static class Bar {

                    public static void Execute() {

                        @Placeholder

                    }

              }

              }";

            string snippet = "int i = 2; int j = 3; int result = i + j; MessageBox.Show(result.ToString());";

            string sourceCode = sourceTemplate.Replace("@Placeholder", snippet);

            CodeSnippetCompileUnit snippetCompileUnit = new CodeSnippetCompileUnit(sourceCode);

            using (CSharpCodeProvider provider =

                new CSharpCodeProvider(new Dictionary<String, String> { { "CompilerVersion", "v3.5" } }))

            {

                CompilerParameters parameters = new CompilerParameters();

                parameters.ReferencedAssemblies.Add("System.dll");

                parameters.ReferencedAssemblies.Add("System.Windows.Forms.dll");

                parameters.GenerateExecutable = false;

                parameters.GenerateInMemory = true;

                parameters.IncludeDebugInformation = false;

                CompilerResults results = provider.CompileAssemblyFromDom(parameters, snippetCompileUnit);

                if (!results.Errors.HasErrors)

                {

                    Type type = results.CompiledAssembly.GetType("Foo.Bar");

                    MethodInfo method = type.GetMethod("Execute");

                    method.Invoke(null, new object[] { });

                }

                else

                {

                    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

                    foreach (CompilerError compilerError in results.Errors)

                        sb.AppendFormat("Error in line {0}:\n\n{1}", compilerError.Line, compilerError.ErrorText);

                    MessageBox.Show(sb.ToString(), "Compiler Error");

                }

                watch.Stop();

                MessageBox.Show("Total Time Taken:" + watch.ElapsedMilliseconds);

            }*/