B.5. Building .NET Applications with Mono

Now let's look at Mono in action. You begin by building a code library named CoreLibDumper.dll. This assembly contains a single class type named CoreLibDumper that supports a static method named DumpTypeToFile(). The method takes a string parameter that represents the fully qualified name of any type within mscorlib.dll and obtains the related type information through the reflection API (see Chapter 15), dumping the class member signatures to a local file on the hard drive.

B.5.1. Building a Mono Code Library

Create a new folder on your C: drive named MonoCode. Within this new folder, create a subfolder named CorLibDumper that contains the following C# file (named CorLibDumper.cs):

// CorLibDumper.cs ...

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