I’ve been doing some CodeDOM work in the last week or so after not having done it much in a while.  What I’m finding most difficult is keeping track of which constructs are usable and which aren’t.  Being a C# programmer, I tend to think about the code that way.  The hardest part about using the CodeDOM is upleveling your thinking to deal with meta-programming.  Describing the construct you want in the constructs of the CodeDOM can be challenging.

Given all that, I can understand why there are no CodeDOM constructs for foreach, using, lock, etc.  Those are C# language constructs that expand to some other CLR goo.  But ,while?  There’s no way to make a while construct in CodeDOM.  ????  I’m pretty sure there’s nothing language specific about a do…while construct.  So you have to translate into a for…next instead.  Sigh.  I’m glad I don’t have to deal with delegates for this code.  That’d be a third level abstraction, which is more than I can handle…