Generating Design Patterns Using CodeDOM

The Code Document Model (CodeDOM), which provides the ability to generate source code in a number of managed languages, is a very powerful .NET facility and has attracted much interest. Within Visual Studio .NET, a complementary though unrelated feature is provided by the CodeModel object, which allows programmatic access to hand--written code. Together these two tools provide a platform from which it should be possible to develop a VS .NET add--in to streamline the production of common designs in code. This case study follows the development of such a tool, which attempts to automate the generation of a widespread design pattern in an existing C# or VB .NET project.