Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.VisualBasic.Desktop

The CommandLineArguments class provides members to Set and Get Visual Basic compilation and parse options.

Set and Get the Visual Basic compilation options.

The currently set Visual Basic compilation options.

Set and Get the Visual Basic parse parse options.

The currently set Visual Basic parse options.

Gets the core Parse options.

The currently set core parse options.

Gets the core compilation options.

The currently set core compilation options.

The VisualBasicCommandLineParser class contains members used to perform various Visual Basic command line parsing operations.

Gets the current command line parser.

Gets the current interactive command line parser.

Creates a new command line parser.

An optional parameter indicating indicating whether to create a interactive command line parser.

Gets the standard Visual Basic source file extension

A string representing the standard Visual Basic source file extension.

Gets the standard Visual Basic script file extension.

A string representing the standard Visual Basic script file extension.

Parses a command line.

A collection of strings representing the command line arguments. The base directory used for qualifying file locations. A string representing additional reference paths. A CommandLineArguments object representing the parsed command line.

Converts a sequence of definitions provided by a caller (public API) into map of definitions used internally.

Invalid value provided.

Converts ImmutableDictionary of definitions used internallyinto IReadOnlyDictionary of definitions returned to a caller (of public API)

Parses Conditional Compilations Symbols. Given the string of conditional compilation symbols from the project system, parse them and merge them with an IReadOnlyDictionary ready to be given to the compilation.

The conditional compilation string. This takes the form of a comma delimited list of NAME=Value pairs, where Value may be a quoted string or integer. A collection of reported diagnostics during parsing of symbolList, can be empty IEnumerable. A collection representing existing symbols. Symbols parsed from will be merged with this dictionary. Invalid value provided.

NOTE: implicit line continuation will not be handled here and an error will be generated, but explicit one (like ".... _\r\n ....") should work fine

Parses the given platform option. Legal strings are "anycpu", "x64", "x86", "itanium", "anycpu32bitpreferred", "arm". In case an invalid value was passed, anycpu is returned.

The value for platform. The error bag.

Parses the file alignment option. In case an invalid value was passed, nothing is returned.

The name of the option. The value for the option. The error bag.

Parses the base address option. In case an invalid value was passed, nothing is returned.

The name of the option. The value for the option. The error bag.

Parses the warning option.

The value for the option.

In VB, if the output file name isn't specified explicitly, then it is derived from the name of the first input file.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/std9609e(v=vs.110) Specify the full name and extension of the file to create. If you do not, the .exe file takes its name from the source-code file containing the Sub Main procedure, and the .dll file takes its name from the first source-code file. However, vbc.cpp has:

Print compiler logo

Print Commandline help message (up to 80 English characters per line)

Emit the IL for the compilation into the specified stream.

Compilation. Path of the file to which the compilation will be written. Path of the file to which the compilation's debug info will be written. Also embedded in the output file. Nothing to forego PDB generation. Path of the file to which the compilation's XML documentation will be written. Nothing to forego XML generation. Path of the file from which the compilation's Win32 resources will be read (in RES format). Null to indicate that there are none. List of the compilation's managed resources. Nothing to indicate that there are none. To cancel the emit process. Compilation or path is null. Path is empty or invalid. An error occurred while reading or writing a file.