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var c = new CodeAssignStatement(new CodeFieldReferenceExpression(new CodeThisReferenceExpression(),"_state"),new CodePrimitiveExpression(1));
// creates a language agnostic AST that renders "this._state = 1;" in c# or similar in VB, or F# or whatever

var c = Slang.Parse("this._state = 1;");

honey the codewitch wrote:

This has nothing to do with a ... programming language

class foo {
<# foreach(var member in members) {
      ... // write out a member
}
#>
}

// create a code dom object from text
CodeExpression expr = Slang.ParseExpression("\"HelloWorld\".ToString()\"");
// parses the string "HelloWorld".ToString() into a code dom tree. Results in a method invoke (ToString) wrapped around a primitive (string) expression
//also
CodeCompileUnit ccu = Slang.ParseCompileUnit(myEntireSourceCodeFileAsAString);
// loads a whole file into the code dom.
// and a lot more stuff there too. You can parse every aspect of the codedom.