scriptcs

Why should you care?

Write C# apps with a text editor, nuget and the power of Rosyln!

Note: Roslyn is a pre-release CTP and currently an unsupported technology. As such there may be changes in Roslyn itself that could impact this project. Please bear that in mind when using scriptcs

• More on why I developed this [here] (http://codebetter.com/glennblock/2013/02/28/scriptcs-living-on-the-edge-in-c-without-a-project-on-the-wings-of-roslyn-and-nuget/)
• Check out our goals and rodmap [here] (https://github.com/scriptcs/scriptcs/wiki/Project-goals-and-roadmap)

Pre-reqs

• Install scriptcs from Chocolatey cinst scriptcs or
• Build the project from the source and put scriptcs.exe in your path.

Quick start

• Open a cmd prompt as admin
• run scriptcs -install scriptcs.webapi
• create a server.csx with your favorite editor. Paste the text below into the file and save (notice no namespaces & no top level class).

public class TestController : ApiController {
  public string Get() {
    return "Hello world!";
  }
}

var webApi = Require<WebApi>();
var server = webApi.CreateServer("http://localhost:8080");
server.OpenAsync().Wait();

Console.WriteLine("Listening...");
Console.ReadKey();
server.CloseAsync().Wait();

• run scriptcs server.csx

This will launch a web api host with a sample controller, which you can access from the browser.

How it works

scriptcs relies on Roslyn for loading loose C# script files. It will automatically discover nuget packages local to the app and load the binaries.

Docs

• Referencing other scripts from your script
• Debugging overview & How To

Contributing

• Read our Contribution Guidelines.
• List of all contributors to date. Thanks!

Credits

• Special thanks to @filip_woj for being the inspiration behind this with his Roslyn Web API posts.
• Thanks to the Roslyn team who helped point me in the right direction.

Coordinators

• Glenn Block (@gblock)
• Justin Rusbatch (@jrusbatch)
• Filip Wojcieszyn (@filip_woj)

Community

Want to chat? In addition to Twitter, you can find us on Google Groups and JabbR!

License

Apache 2 License