[.net] C#/Net Script language?

Me again [wink].

You can use .NET's CodeDom namespace to compile .NET languages like C# and VB.NET. I made a wrapper for the methodology named GakScript. It consists of a wrapper class where you pretty much set the language (C#, JScript, Visual Basic, etc), add the references, add some code in and then compile it. From there you can call methods and execute the script. There are also helper functions like DoCodeFromFile that reads in the code, compiles and executes it for it.

I'm using this for a project I'm currently working on. All tile maps are read in from script files containing the actual code to generate the Map object. GakScript comes with a few example programs that you can play with. Enjoy!

You could also take a look at embedding IronPython.

You could also look at the D3DSDK samples, they have one that shows embedding C# scripts with security.

There are a variety of scripting languages out there. An interesting one is boo.

As for scripting with C#, all the methods I've seen essentially involve compiling C# to a temporary assembly (DLL) and loading it. The problem is that you can't unload assemblies directly; you have to put them in an AppDomain and unload an entire AppDomain to unload them. Morever, there are subtle issues involved with taking the AppDomain route. Of course, this isn't a problem if you don't need to unload scripts.

Here's a C# dynamic compiling article.

Rob, I saw another script engine similar to yours but I'm just wondering if they can be used like actual scripts. I.e can I pass data to and from the scripts without saving it to disk? I guess I can do a using type thing to get identical strucutres if I use C#, but is there anything like,

Script MyScript = ScriptEngine.Load("MyScript.cs")
MyScript.RegisterMethod( MyMethodDelegate)

or similar? with a means to extract and send back return data? Like Lua really.

Thanks for the other suggestions too, i'll check 'em out.

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Original post by ScopeDynamo Rob, I saw another script engine similar to yours but I'm just wondering if they can be used like actual scripts. I.e can I pass data to and from the scripts without saving it to disk? I guess I can do a using type thing to get identical strucutres if I use C#, but is there anything like, Script MyScript = ScriptEngine.Load("MyScript.cs") MyScript.RegisterMethod( MyMethodDelegate) or similar? with a means to extract and send back return data? Like Lua really. Thanks for the other suggestions too, i'll check 'em out.

You can add any compiled assembly to the references of the script file. This means you'd go:

GakScripter script = new GakScripter();script.AddReference("MyScriptFunctions.dll");

This allows the script access to all functionality within the compiled MyScriptFunctions.dll. You could make instances of classes in its namespace, call static methods, etc. I'd like to add a AddSelfReference method or something. The register method idea you brought up is a good one though and I've added it to the Todo list.

LUA .net Warper

http://www.codeproject.com/managedcpp/luanetwrapper.asp