Getting Started with Script#

At MIX11, I presented a session on Script# titled "Script#: Compiling C# to JavaScript" ... and I did a follow up blog post highlighting the key points from the presentation.

This blog post covers the Hello World demo, which will show how you can get started with script#, and deploy scripts authored using this approach. It doesn't go into more advanced topics, but hopefully it will also demonstrate a couple of key principles at play:

• Script# doesn't introduce some new and odd abstractions. You're still very much authoring script against the DOM and standard APIs, and existing knowledge of web development carries forward.
• The generated script is similar to script you might have authored directly, and can be distributed or deployed into a web application like any other script library, without a dependency on the compiler at runtime.

Script# enables you to leverage Visual Studio, C# syntax and existing familiar and robust set of .NET tools to scripting. In my MIX talk, I demonstrated some of this. In this post, you'll see some basic benefits such as intellisense and compile errors.

Creating a Script# Project

I am going to start with a solution that contains an ASP.NET Web Application (DemoWeb), which is going to contain my pages and scripts. I can of course deploy script#-generated scripts into any server application.

Next I am going to add a Script Library project, named DemoScript. This is a project template that gets installed into Visual Studio when you install script#. The project template creates a C# project, with a custom msbuild target that invokes the script# compiler msbuild task after the C# compiler is done with its part to produce an assembly.

Read more: nikhilk.net

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