scriptcs

Why should you care?

Write C# apps with a text editor, nuget and the power of [Roslyn] (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/roslyn.aspx)!

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 the [nuget cmdline bootstrapper] (http://nuget.codeplex.com/releases/view/58939)
Build the project and put scriptcs.exe in your path.

Quick start

Open a cmd prompt as admin
Create a directory "c:\scriptcs_hello" and change to it.
run "nuget install Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.SelfHost -o Packages"
create a server.csx with your favorite editor. Paste the text below into the file and save.

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Web.Http;
using System.Web.Http.SelfHost;

var address = "http://localhost:8080";
var conf = new HttpSelfHostConfiguration(new Uri(address));
conf.Routes.MapHttpRoute(name: "DefaultApi",
   routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
   defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
);

var server = new HttpSelfHostServer(conf);
server.OpenAsync().Wait();
Console.WriteLine("Listening...");
Console.ReadKey();

run "scriptcs server.csx"

This will launch a web api host.

How it works

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

What's next

Adding support for pluggable recipe "packs" for different frameworks.

Contributing

Read our Contribution Guidelines.

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)

License

Apache 2 License

anderly / scriptcs