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SharpConsole Progress...

• 03/08/2014
• Sebastien St-Laurent
• Software

NMade some good progress on SharpConsole this week. My focus was mainly on scripting basics and user interface integation which includes WPF user control support and menu support.

Using AvalonEdit for SharpConsole

• 03/06/2014
• Sebastien St-Laurent
• Programming

One realization I had this week while working on SharpConsole is that I cannot use Winforms for the UI. This is due to the fact that I want my scripts to be able to display UI within the main application but there isn't a proper mechanism to allow this under Winforms but is something supported under WPF. 

This means I needed to re-write the UI from scratch using WPF/Xaml but this created the problem that I need a new UI component for the console display as the WPF version of what I was using appeared to be broken. I decided to roll out my own solution but to start off with AvalonEdit, an open source WPF editor (used in SharpDevelop) and make the necessary modifications to suit my needs.

Tool of the Week 03/07/14 - scriptcs

• 03/04/2014
• Sebastien St-Laurent
• Software

Since scripting has been the topic this week, here is a Tool of the Week that falls into this category. ScriptCS is a simple command-line based scripting system which will compile C# code on the fly and run it without the need for pre-building code or creating Visual Studio projects.

C# Scripting Part 3 - Scripting <-> Host Communication

• 03/04/2014
• Sebastien St-Laurent
• Programming

As promissed in my previous post, this new post is dedicated to how communication occurs between the scripts and the application. If the script was run within the same AppDomain as the main application, it would be a simple matter of exposing some context object to the script. However with seperate AppDomains, we cannot exchange information directly and some other mechanism must be used.

C# Scripting Part 2 - Roslyn and Compiling Scripts

• 03/04/2014
• Sebastien St-Laurent
• Programming

In this second part, I will start exploring the use of Roslyn to compile scripts as well as some of the decisions I had to make in the implementation. Some of these choice were intentional based on how I wanted the script system to work but some were made because of hurdles I encountered.

Just to note, this isn't intended to be a Roslyn tutorial specifically or a basic use example. I prefer to focus on the exact context in which I am using it as there are plenty of good tutorials out there.