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Reflexil is an assembly editor and runs as a plug-in for Reflector or JustDecompile. Reflexil is able to manipulate IL code and save the modified assemblies to disk. Reflexil also supports "on-the-fly" C#/VB.NET code injection.
// CSharp Editor Example with Code Completion
// Copyright (c) 2006, Daniel Grunwald
// All rights reserved.
// 
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// permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
// 
// - Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list
//   of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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// - Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list
//   of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials
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using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using ICSharpCode.TextEditor;
using ICSharpCode.TextEditor.Gui.CompletionWindow;

using Dom = ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Dom;
using NRefactoryResolver = ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Dom.NRefactoryResolver.NRefactoryResolver;

using Reflexil.Forms;
using Reflexil.Compilation;
using Reflexil.Properties;

namespace Reflexil.Intellisense
{
	class CodeCompletionProvider : ICompletionDataProvider
	{
		IntellisenseForm iForm;
		
		public CodeCompletionProvider(IntellisenseForm iForm)
		{
			this.iForm = iForm;
		}
		
		public ImageList ImageList {
			get {
				return iForm.ImageList;
			}
		}
		
		public string PreSelection {
			get {
				return null;
			}
		}
		
		public int DefaultIndex {
			get {
				return -1;
			}
		}
		
		public CompletionDataProviderKeyResult ProcessKey(char key)
		{
			if (char.IsLetterOrDigit(key) || key == '_') {
				return CompletionDataProviderKeyResult.NormalKey;
			} else {
				// key triggers insertion of selected items
				return CompletionDataProviderKeyResult.InsertionKey;
			}
		}
		
		/// <summary>
		/// Called when entry should be inserted. Forward to the insertion action of the completion data.
		/// </summary>
		public bool InsertAction(ICompletionData data, TextArea textArea, int insertionOffset, char key)
		{
			textArea.Caret.Position = textArea.Document.OffsetToPosition(insertionOffset);
			return data.InsertAction(textArea, key);
		}
		
		public ICompletionData[] GenerateCompletionData(string fileName, TextArea textArea, char charTyped)
		{
			// We can return code-completion items like this:
			
			//return new ICompletionData[] {
			//	new DefaultCompletionData("Text", "Description", 1)
			//};
			
			NRefactoryResolver resolver = new NRefactoryResolver(iForm.ProjectContent.Language);
			Dom.ResolveResult rr = resolver.Resolve(FindExpression(textArea),
			                                        iForm.ParseInformation,
			                                        textArea.MotherTextEditorControl.Text);
			List<ICompletionData> resultList = new List<ICompletionData>();
			if (rr != null) {
				ArrayList completionData = rr.GetCompletionData(iForm.ProjectContent);
				if (completionData != null) {
					AddCompletionData(resultList, completionData);
				}
			}
			return resultList.ToArray();
		}
		
		/// <summary>
		/// Find the expression the cursor is at.
		/// Also determines the context (using statement, "new"-expression etc.) the
		/// cursor is at.
		/// </summary>
		Dom.ExpressionResult FindExpression(TextArea textArea)
		{
			Dom.IExpressionFinder finder;
			if (IntellisenseForm.SupportedLanguage == ESupportedLanguage.VisualBasic) {
				finder = new Dom.VBNet.VBExpressionFinder();
			} else {
				finder = new Dom.CSharp.CSharpExpressionFinder(iForm.ParseInformation);
			}
			Dom.ExpressionResult expression = finder.FindExpression(textArea.Document.TextContent, textArea.Caret.Offset);
			if (expression.Region.IsEmpty) {
				expression.Region = new Dom.DomRegion(textArea.Caret.Line + 1, textArea.Caret.Column + 1);
			}
			return expression;
		}
		
		void AddCompletionData(List<ICompletionData> resultList, ArrayList completionData)
		{
			// used to store the method names for grouping overloads
			Dictionary<string, CodeCompletionData> methodNameDictionary = new Dictionary<string, CodeCompletionData>();
            Dictionary<string, CodeCompletionData> typeNameDictionary = new Dictionary<string, CodeCompletionData>();
			
			// Add the completion data as returned by SharpDevelop.Dom to the
			// list for the text editor
			foreach (object obj in completionData) {
				if (obj is string) {
					// namespace names are returned as string
					resultList.Add(new DefaultCompletionData((string)obj, "namespace " + obj, 5));
				} else if (obj is Dom.IClass) {
					Dom.IClass c = (Dom.IClass)obj;;
                    if (!typeNameDictionary.ContainsKey(c.Name))
                    {
                        CodeCompletionData data = new CodeCompletionData(c);
                        typeNameDictionary.Add(c.Name, data);
                        resultList.Add(data);
                    }
				} else if (obj is Dom.IMember) {
					Dom.IMember m = (Dom.IMember)obj;
					if (m is Dom.IMethod && ((m as Dom.IMethod).IsConstructor)) {
						// Skip constructors
						continue;
					}
					// Group results by name and add "(x Overloads)" to the
					// description if there are multiple results with the same name.
					
					CodeCompletionData data;
					if (methodNameDictionary.TryGetValue(m.Name, out data)) {
						data.AddOverload();
					} else {
						methodNameDictionary[m.Name] = data = new CodeCompletionData(m);
						resultList.Add(data);
					}
				} else {
					// Current ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Dom should never return anything else
					throw new NotSupportedException();
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

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Software Developer (Senior) Microsoft
United States United States
Sebastien Lebreton is a Software Engineer at Microsoft.

He is particularly interested in optimization, reverse engineering and distributed objects technologies.

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