CSBat: The C# Interpreter

posted by  mvrok (14)  12 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Just to try out this idea I wrote out CSBat.cs, which allows C# code in bat and cmd files.

Here is the problem this solves: Frequently I just want to write a short C# snippet. I don't want to write it as a source file, compile it, and run it. I'd rather just put the snippet in a bat file and run the bat file. I want to shorten the code-compile-execute loop to just code-execute. CSBat solves this problem. (Note: The in-memory compiler code was taken from Don Box's CSRepl from his blog. Also you will need the Whidbey 2.0 runtime to play with this sample.)

Here is how to use the