I was interested in knowing how an executable could be generated from another executable.
Let me explain, let's imagine that I have a form where in some textboxs they are asked, what do I know, an email, subject, message etc ...
But I'm not interested in giving a button, send the message, but generate an executable, and when that application is sent a message, how the hell is an executable compile from another executable?
In runtime you can generate code using the libraries of CodeDom
How to programmatically compile code using C # compiler
something like this
string code = @"
using System;
namespace First
{
public class Program
{
public static void Main()
{
" +
"Console.WriteLine(\"Hello, world!\");"
+ @"
}
}
}
";
CSharpCodeProvider provider = new CSharpCodeProvider();
CompilerParameters parameters = new CompilerParameters();
parameters.GenerateInMemory = true;
parameters.GenerateExecutable = true;
CompilerResults results = provider.CompileAssemblyFromSource(parameters, code);
Of course the code is simplified, then you must validate if there are errors in the compilation and you can execute what you compiled, but I think it gives an idea