NRoles: An experiment with roles in C#
In the last months, I've been developing in my spare time a proof-of-concept post-compiler with Mono.Cecil to enable roles in C# : NRoles . Roles are high level constructs that enable better code reuse through easier composition. They are very similar to traits as described in the traits paper (pdf) . Set up NRoles is hosted on google code . You can get the latest source code with this mercurial command: hg clone https://code.google.com/p/nroles/ nroles You can also download the latest binary package from the downloads page . To set up a Visual Studio project to use NRoles, unzip the binary package (or compile from source) in a folder accessible to the project. I normally have a project root folder, with folders for the project code ( src ) and for any used libraries ( lib ). For example: src\ project files ... lib\ nroles-v0.1.2-bin\ NRoles.dll nutate.exe other NRoles binaries ... In the project, add a reference to the NRoles.dll ...