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C# and .NET Core scripting with the "dotnet-script" global tool

dotnet scriptYou likely know that open source .NET Core is cross platform and it's super easy to do "Hello World" and start writing some code.

You just install .NET Core, then "dotnet new console" which will generate a project file and basic app, then "dotnet run" will compile and run your app? The 'new' command will create all the supporting code, obj, and bin folders, etc. When you do "dotnet run" it actually is a combination of "dotnet build" and "dotnet exec whatever.dll."

What could be easier?

What about .NET Core as scripting?

Check out dotnet script:

C:\Users\scott\Desktop\scriptie> dotnet tool install -g dotnet-script

You can invoke the tool using the following command: dotnet-script

C:\Users\scott\Desktop\scriptie>copy con helloworld.csx

Console.WriteLine("Hello world!");

^Z

        1 file(s) copied.

C:\Users\scott\Desktop\scriptie>dotnet script helloworld.csx

Hello world!

NOTE: I was a little tricky there in step two. I did a "copy con filename" to copy from the console to the destination file, then used Ctrl-Z to finish the copy. Feel free to just use notepad or vim. That's not dotnet-script-specific, that's Hanselman-specific.

Pretty cool eh? If you were doing this in Linux or OSX you'll need to include a "shebang" as the first line of the script. This is a standard thing for scripting files like bash, python, etc.

#!/usr/bin/env dotnet-script

Console.WriteLine("Hello world");

This lets the operating system know what scripting engine handles this file.

If you you want to refer to a NuGet package within a script (*.csx) file, you'll use the Roslyn #r syntax:

#r "nuget: AutoMapper, 6.1.0"

Console.WriteLine("whatever);

Even better! Once you have "dotnet-script" installed as a global tool as above:

dotnet tool install -g dotnet-script

You can use it as a REPL! Finally, the C# REPL (Read Evaluate Print Loop) I've been asking for for only a decade! ;)

C:\Users\scott\Desktop\scriptie>dotnet script

> 2+2

4

> var x = "scott hanselman";

> x.ToUpper()

"SCOTT HANSELMAN"

This is super useful for a learning tool if you're teaching C# in a lab/workshop situation. Of course you could also learn using http://try.dot.net in the browser as well.

In the past you may have used ScriptCS for C# scripting. There's a number of cool C#/F# scripting options. This is certainly not a new thing:

In this case, I was very impressed with the easy of dotnet-script as a global tool and it's simplicity. Go check out https://github.com/filipw/dotnet-script and try it out today!

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