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For C# developers, have a look at csi (C# Interpreter) as a potential cmd replacement. I've been using it extensively for a couple weeks and like it very much.

For C# developers, have a look at csi (C# Interpreter) as a potential cmd replacement. I've been using it extensively for a couple weeks and like it very much. Also, the same scripts can, with little modifications, be posted to Azure Functions to run on the cloud.

intrasight 10y ago
See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt614271.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt614271.aspx and http://www.hanselman.com/blog/InteractiveCodingWithCAndFREPLsScriptCSOrTheVisualStudioInteractiveWindow.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/InteractiveCodingWithCAndFREPL...
starik36 10y ago
Wow, that is pretty awesome. Is there anyway to get Intellisense into the command window for CSI? I, all of a sudden, realized that I don't remember properties of the objects without it.
- Locke1689 10y ago
  You can get that in VS via the Interactive Window (View->Other Windows->C# Interactive). Theoretically you could implement a completion system for the terminal but we reused the WPF editor layers for the completion system rather than building a new one from scratch, so it isn't available in the terminal. Also, all that is open source at https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn and the scripting core can be rehosted as an API.
pjmlp 10y ago
Or even better, the F# version of it (.fsx).
rubber_duck 10y ago
Last time I tried this there was no way to load nuget references. Very limited usability if that's true. I wasn't trying to use it as a shell replacement but like a REPL for interactive development/prototyping. F# works better for this IIRC but I have not used F# several years - need to brush up on it.
- soundwave106 10y ago
  You might want to look at ScriptCS for that, that also has a REPL and it does support Nuget packages.
- intrasight 10y ago
  When I work locally, I have a dummy VS project for grabbing assemblies from Nuget. With Azure Fuctions, your function.json file can reference nuget packages.

intrasight 10y ago

See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt614271.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt614271.aspx and http://www.hanselman.com/blog/InteractiveCodingWithCAndFREPLsScriptCSOrTheVisualStudioInteractiveWindow.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/InteractiveCodingWithCAndFREPL...

starik36 10y ago

Wow, that is pretty awesome. Is there anyway to get Intellisense into the command window for CSI? I, all of a sudden, realized that I don't remember properties of the objects without it.

Locke1689 10y ago
You can get that in VS via the Interactive Window (View->Other Windows->C# Interactive). Theoretically you could implement a completion system for the terminal but we reused the WPF editor layers for the completion system rather than building a new one from scratch, so it isn't available in the terminal. Also, all that is open source at https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn and the scripting core can be rehosted as an API.

pjmlp 10y ago

Or even better, the F# version of it (.fsx).

rubber_duck 10y ago

Last time I tried this there was no way to load nuget references. Very limited usability if that's true. I wasn't trying to use it as a shell replacement but like a REPL for interactive development/prototyping. F# works better for this IIRC but I have not used F# several years - need to brush up on it.

soundwave106 10y ago
You might want to look at ScriptCS for that, that also has a REPL and it does support Nuget packages.
intrasight 10y ago
When I work locally, I have a dummy VS project for grabbing assemblies from Nuget. With Azure Fuctions, your function.json file can reference nuget packages.