c# compiler: get intermediate output

Question

Is there a way to instruct c# compiler to output source at different stages of compilation: source after syntactic sugar removed, ..., IL.

Perhaps some tools (Resharper?) do this, but I'd like to know how they do that.

Answer 1

No there is not. The C# compiler doesn't produce any intermediate output. It either produces errors / warnings or an assembly.

Getting the IL can be done with ildasm. This is a tool that ships with .Net that will display the raw IL for assemblies

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa309387(v=vs.71).aspx